Larry Wall Quotes

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

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• I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Think
  • Lose
  • Taste

• Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Trying
  • American
  • Environment

• I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Small
  • Hate
  • Running

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
  • Leadership

• My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Me
  • Helps

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Acting

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • People
  • Energy
  • Unique

• People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

  

  Ian Rush
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • You
  • Matter
  • Afraid

• Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • God
  • Team
  • Fall

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Birds
  • Racing

• I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fun

• I love football, football is my life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Love
  • Football

• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Great
  • Wife

• We use the block chain to share value, just like Internet protocol lets us share communication. Our goal is to build a global, international bank that is instant, global, and free. Sending payments should be as easy as sending an email.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Free
  • Value
  • Communication

• The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

  

  Chesley Sullenberger
  • Work

• I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.

  

  Jane Powell
  • Work
  • Why
  • Home

• Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

  

  Lolo Jones
  • Running
  • Friend

• I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Work
  • Free
  • Best