Larry Wall Quotes
There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient.

Quotes to Explore
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
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There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.
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Cap-and-trade is a dangerous policy fraught with the potential for significant corruption, and it would hurt my constituents and our economy by raising energy costs.
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The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
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I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.
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There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient.