Larry Wall Quotes

That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

Larry Wall

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• The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Women
  • Change
  • Need

• Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Love
  • Me
  • Peace

• I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Professional

• I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Time
  • Grind
  • Complain

• I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Career
  • Independent
  • Blessed

• I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • School
  • Business

• There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Good
  • Done
  • Home

• I call myself a geriatric starlet.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Myself
  • Call
  • Starlet

• In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Sex

• The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Together
  • Doing
  • Internet

• I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Love

• I work everywhere. If there is a nice adventure in South Korea, for example, why not? Russia, Brazil, whatever. I'm ready for almost anything.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Why
  • Nice

• If it's music, I love it.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Words

• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Me
  • Stupid
  • Dead

• There can be a new tomorrow There can be a brighter day There can be a new tomorrow Love will find a way

  

  Jackie DeShannon

• As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • God
  • Family
  • Father

• Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Money
  • Learning
  • Just

• I'm just trying to normalize my life and get ready for the last 20 years or whatever I've got. It's a lot to take care of.

  

  John Sandford
  • Life
  • Trying

• Mentoring is about listening to people, helping them go over what the issues are and how to clarify ways to deal with any problems that may arise.

  

  Mildred Dresselhaus
  • People
  • Helping
  • Problems

• That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

  

  Larry Wall