Larry Wall Quotes
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
Quotes to Explore
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
I got to write most of everything I said.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
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The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.
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I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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What the event will be like, being part of the Olympics and being in London, is too much to think about. You've no control over those things, so in a way, it's wasted energy to think of them.
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I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
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I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.
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There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she's built. She's not afraid to own who she is.
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I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
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Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.
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The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life - which I am now so open about - is sort of surreal.
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The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
