Larry Wall Quotes
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When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.
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Figure out who you are.
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My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.
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High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.
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I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.
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We do like digital projection. We like shooting on film, finishing digitally, and projection digitally. That's what I like best. It's still a movie. It's not someone's camcorder and it got projected. That's mean, I know.
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I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
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I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
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Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.
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Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?
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'Yes yes yes, later. For now I would ask you to proclaim next Friday from the mimbar in the masjid that the French are protectors of the faith and friends of the Prophet.'
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I make no excuses. It is what is it. I came up short. I took a chance, it didn't pay off. I'll be back.
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It sounded good. It was a story that Victor Conte told me to use. I was contacted by Dr. Goldman, and that's how the story came about. And that was my first time ever meeting, or speaking, to Dr. Goldman.
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As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
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It is London fashion week, and once again I haven't been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love of fashion, or, as I think of it, playing with the dressing-up box.
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Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.
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It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.