Larry Wall Quotes

: But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice.(yet)

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• I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Step

• My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Never

• I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • First
  • Concert

• America preaches integration and practices segregation.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America
  • Segregation

• I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Going
  • Head
  • Coach

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Different
  • Together
  • City

• People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Friendly

• The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Think
  • Changing

• A good system shortens the road to the goal.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Road
  • Goal

• I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Good
  • Hate
  • Praise

• Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Society
  • Man
  • Political

• I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Person
  • Worried
  • Conversations

• Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Working
  • Consistent

• All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Political

• Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Comedy
  • Same
  • Talent

• Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

  

  Halsey
  • Desperate
  • Bisexual
  • Bipolar

• The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.

  

  Jasper Carrott

• I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • God
  • Looks
  • Said

• Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.

  

  George Packer
  • Up
  • Money
  • Success

• I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I've seen in my business lifetime.

  

  Richard Rainwater
  • Opportunity
  • Lifetime
  • Intriguing

• : But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice.(yet)

  

  Larry Wall