Larry Wall Quotes
The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Camille Paglia
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I love the Americans. They are my best friends.
Idi Amin
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
Hanya Yanagihara
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'
Bebe Neuwirth
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I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.
Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
Yuri Andropov
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I dig Steve Harvey: he's the suit man. I be checking him out.
Aaron Neville
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Garry Wills
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
P. J. Soles
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
Daniel Berrigan
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
Lance Reddick
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I read French much better than I speak.
Cara Black
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I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.
Flavor Flav
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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
Randall Terry
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I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.
Iain Duncan Smith
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He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
Samantha Smith
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My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.
Ike Barinholtz
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I think America is a great place to grow up. It's a good lifestyle.
Caroline Wozniacki
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I hated when Rafael said he hated himself. Sometimes he would say something like that. I just didn’t like hearing that. Why would he want to hate himself? Okay, people don’t really want to hate themselves. I get that. It comes from somewhere deep inside and getting to that place is hard as hell. I get that too. This is my theory: the people who shouldn’t hate themselves, do hate themselves. And the people who should hate themselves, don’t hate themselves. The world is all backwards. See, this is one of the many reasons why God and I are not good friends.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.
Adam McKay
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Personally, I'd prefer a guy who wants to see my boobs.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
Larry Wall