Larry Wall Quotes

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• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Positive
  • Follow
  • Assume

• Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Best
  • More
  • Respond

• You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • New
  • Wave

• I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Communication
  • Humor

• I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Inspiration
  • Actor

• You cannot rely on other people's support.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • You
  • Support

• I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Business
  • America
  • Opportunity

• Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Work
  • Home
  • Myself

• The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Movie
  • Technology
  • Find

• Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Live
  • Philosophy

• I have to keep testing myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Myself
  • Keep
  • Testing

• Jesus loved me and I knew not why. And I loved Him because He quickened my spirit to heights beyond my stature, and to depths beyond my sounding. Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Why
  • May
  • Jesus

• Lois: Hey, Ginger! Are you masturbating in there or what? I wanna show you something!Ginger: in the tub If I'm masturbating, will you leave me alone?Lois: No! Check it out. How do I look?Ginger: Like a white girl in a black bra.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Black
  • Girl
  • Alone

• Oh some I know! I have embalmed the days,Even the sacred moments when we played,All innocent of passion, uncorrupt,At noon and evening in the flame-heart’s shade.

  

  Claude McKay
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Moments

• I am alive when your fingers are.

  

  Anne Sexton

• How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.

  

  Jessica Seinfeld
  • People

• If you're under 26, you can stay on your parents' plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents' plans.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • School
  • Family
  • Parents

• Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Two

• George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

  

  Mark Shields

• You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.

  

  James Dean
  • Done

• There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.

  

  David H. Levy
  • Things
  • Misery
  • Eliminate

• I liked her scowl and I liked her freedom to wear it.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Freedom
  • Wear

• That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[eE]xp?|RE . . . Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns...

  

  Larry Wall