Larry Wall Quotes
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
Tara Strong -
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus -
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 -
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 -
The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
Kalpana Chawla -
Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.
Yoko Ono
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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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 -
The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
Mandy Patinkin -
We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
Manmohan Singh -
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 -
I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
Daniel Ek
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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 -
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 -
The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.
Frances Beinecke -
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 -
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 -
Suppose your father... walked into this room at the ordinary human pace of walking. And suppose just behind him was his father. How long would we have to wait before the ancestor who enters the now-open door is a creature who normally walked on all fours? The answer is a week.
Carl Sagan
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If I stand alone, It does not mean, I am any less a Human, If my arms do not hold another, It does not mean, They are incapable of holding, If my tongue is silent, And never speaks the words of Love, It does not mean, That it will be mute, When the time comes, That the words can sincerely be spoken. And just because the World, Has not yet introduced, The one that will share my Life, It certainly does not mean, That I am incapable, Of Loving.
Javan -
It is wise to agree that all things are one.
Heraclitus -
I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Passing that fiery tree – if only she could; Be making love, Be making poetry, Be exploding, be speeding through the universe; Like a photon, like a shower; Of yellow blazes...
Alicia Ostriker -
You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.
Henry Hopper -
[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]
Larry Wall