Larry Wall Quotes
P.S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight...
Quotes to Explore
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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For me, family feels like a web of love and care, and instinctively, too, I do just like nurturing things.
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I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.
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Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.
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Only by developing a deeper understanding of AI systems as they act in the world can we ensure that this new infrastructure never turns toxic.
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I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.
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P.S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight...
