Larry Wall Quotes
I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.Larry Wall
Quotes to Explore
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
Salman Rushdie -
All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
Idina Menzel -
The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
Maajid Nawaz -
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
Gary Wolf -
I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
Zhu Rongji -
Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
Kary Mullis
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
J. M. Roberts -
My mom could be pretty strict.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
Naomi Klein -
I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
Halle Berry -
I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
Kaskade -
I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
Yvonne Strahovski
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
Fiona Shaw -
Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
Patrick Wilson -
I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
Rachel Sklar -
I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
Yakov Smirnoff -
As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
Lance Secretan -
I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
Walter O'Brien
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On the red carpet, I'm playing a character. As soon as I get off that thing, I think, 'Oof, wipe that gloss off.' I'm wiping and wiping and pulling my hair out and trying to change my outfit. I'm immediately trying to get comfortable. It's really a part I play.
Jessica Biel -
It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.
Hillary Clinton -
Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.
John Surtees -
My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.
Kehlani -
I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner -
I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
Larry Wall