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.

Larry Wall

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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
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Man

• I love the Americans. They are my best friends.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Americans

• The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Mother
  • Speed
  • Limit

• The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Hair
  • First
  • Broadway

• 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
  • People
  • Dirty
  • Eating

• I dig Steve Harvey: he's the suit man. I be checking him out.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Man
  • Him
  • Suit

• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  

  Garry Wills
  • War
  • Decide
  • Winners

• Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Great
  • Music
  • Fans

• 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
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Religion

• '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
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• I read French much better than I speak.

  

  Cara Black
  • Better
  • Speak
  • Read

• I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Real
  • Celebrity
  • Big

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• 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
  • Remember
  • Teacher
  • Name

• Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Bad
  • Enemy
  • Intelligent

• I've reached the age where young people frequently ask for my advice. All I can really say is that electronics is a fascinating field that I continue to find fulfilling. The field is still growing rapidly, and the opportunities that are ahead are at least as great as they were when I graduated from college. My advice is to get involved and get started.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • People
  • Great
  • Age

• It took me a long time to adjust and narrow down my life. I made my shift to the mind-set … there's time for my daughter outside work and that's all. This is my new life. This is not drudgery. This is fun.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• No matter how cutting-edge Hollywood may seem, it is still delayed in how it views people: If producers do not perceive me as an Iranian girl, then I cannot play an Iranian girl. If you aren't perceived as a full black girl, then it makes it more difficult to play a black girl on TV.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • People
  • May
  • Black

• Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • World
  • Ability
  • Negative

• You tempt me to telephone Matron and ask her to let you have the afternoon off.’ He spoke lightly and Sarah felt a surprising regret that he couldn’t possibly mean it. ‘That sort of thing happens in novels, never in real life. I can imagine Matron’s feelings!

  

  Betty Neels
  • Imagine
  • Regret
  • Novels

• I listened to pretty much anything that I could really feel, where I felt like the artist had to write those songs, where you can feel their soul and the pain and the happiness and love and everything.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Soul
  • Pretty
  • Pain

• 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