Larry Wall Quotes
I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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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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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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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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When I happen to be satisfied with everything, even God and myself, I immediately react like the man who, on a brilliant day, torments himself because the sun is bound to explode in a few billion years.
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To play mixed doubles: hit the girl whenever possible.
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Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
