Larry Wall Quotes
I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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Eventually I'm going to be too old to be on camera, and I've been doing stand-up a long time.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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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.
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The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
