Larry Wall Quotes
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
Macaulay Culkin
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
Kate Beckinsale
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
Walter O'Brien
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
Gaby Hoffmann
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If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
Garth Brooks
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
Abraham Lincoln
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My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
Pam Grier
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Napoleon Hill
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
Bassem Youssef
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Walter Cronkite
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken
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When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
Padgett Powell
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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
Aaron Yoo
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Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
Karl Barth
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At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.
Jack Dangermond
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The fact of the matter is that the true hits of AOL have always been its easy-to-use services, such as AIM, email, and Buddy Lists.
Kara Swisher
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Greed puts out the sun.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
Vernor Vinge
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Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite poet. People like poets to possess the same qualities they do.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.
Helen Keller
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson
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What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.
George Matthew Adams
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Programmers can be lazy.
Larry Wall