Larry Wall Quotes

Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix'.

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• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • True
  • Champion
  • Watching

• I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I think we know how to do Mars.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Think
  • Know
  • Mars

• I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Different
  • Want
  • Person

• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Team
  • Kind

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You

• It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Difficult
  • Over

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.

  

  Ian Millar
  • She
  • Remember
  • Wife

• Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Attractive

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

  

  Gene Cernan
  • World
  • America
  • Knowledge

• There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn't sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Up
  • Universe
  • Sleep

• I just wanted to jump out of my body sometimes and be someone else.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • Jump

• Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix'.

  

  Larry Wall
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