Larry Wall Quotes

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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
  • Family
  • School
  • 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

• I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Different
  • Violence

• You have to be committed or you fall behind, lose out.

  

  Crystal Gayle
  • Fall

• When the song went #1, it got picked up by a major label, Cameo Parkway, out of Philadelphia. We sold over a million records.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Song
  • Records
  • Label

• Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Comfort

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

  

  Larry Wall