Larry Wall Quotes

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Larry Wall

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• My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.

  

  Natasha Little
  • School
  • Family
  • Job

• Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Speak
  • Succeed

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • New
  • Priority
  • Creating

• Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Real
  • motivation
  • Obsession

• Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Art
  • Subject
  • Idealism

• The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Best
  • First
  • Investment

• Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • World
  • True
  • Dreams

• You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • You
  • Best
  • Looking

• I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!

  

  Karan Johar
  • May
  • Know
  • Feel

• An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Agent
  • Simply
  • Ambassador

• My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Different
  • Job
  • Friends

• 'The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden,' said Papa Moose, 'now that snakes can’t talk.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Garden

• No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into 'the secrets of the nether world,' as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• For two and a half years, I rigorously trained seven to eight hours a day in two disciplines of dance but moved on to the most versatile medium called cinema which encompassed every form of art.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Art
  • Dance

• I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art
  • Design

• Alcun non può saper da chi sia amato,Quando felice in su la ruota siede:Però c'ha i veri e i finti amici a lato,Che mostran tutti una medesma fede.Se poi si cangia in tristo il lieto stato,Volta la turba adulatrice il piede;E quel che di cor ama riman forte,Ed ama il suo signor dopo la morte.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will 'talk sense to the American people'. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • People
  • American
  • Hope

• I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

  

  Stephan Pastis
  • Strips
  • Panel
  • Indicate

• A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.

  

  Brit Marling
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Decisions
  • Reverse
  • Servants

• My husband is a musician, and 'Paste' is one of his favorite places to be interviewed by.

  

  Claire Coffee
  • Husband

• I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.

  

  Larry Wall