Larry Wall Quotes

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Larry Wall

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• I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Me
  • Sure
  • Definitely

• Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Adversity

• Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

  

  Beck
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • May
  • Way
  • Best

• Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Japanese

• We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Because
  • Become
  • Did

• I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Family
  • Together
  • Science

• When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Start

• The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Story
  • Songs
  • Sing

• We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Government
  • Limits
  • Options

• I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Courage

• I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Born
  • I Was Born
  • Sweden

• I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Game

• The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Truth
  • Water
  • Truth Is

• I didn't even enter a bookshop until I was 14 because I couldn't afford books until I got my first Saturday job, but by the time I was six or seven, I spent practically every Saturday down my local library reading as much as I could and getting out as many books as I could.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Job
  • Reading

• Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• At the beginning, there was this competitive vibe, like, 'Oh, we've got to compete for this audience.' But then, over the next few years afterwards, everyone on YouTube realized the more we work together, the more we collaborate, it just benefits everyone. It just became a really friendly community.

  

  Anthony Padilla
  • Work
  • Together
  • Community

• Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Art
  • Daughter
  • Entertainment

• What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Suffer
  • Injury
  • Rising

• Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Writing
  • Imagine
  • Fantasy

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  Larry Wall