Larry Wall Quotes
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
Nate Powell -
I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.
Mahershala Ali -
If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.
Uzo Aduba -
Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
Ian Hart -
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Abbie Hoffman -
I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
Vikram Seth -
Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.
Gary Johnson -
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.
Vanna Bonta -
An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Oh, no. Not me, not Marshall. You want to see Marshall? I'll show you Marshall! I tried to show you art, but you just pick it apart.
Eminem -
Given charge Ballard would have made things more orderly in the woods and in men's souls. (p.128)
Cormac McCarthy -
I would do 'Superbad,' and the next offers you would get would all be crazy cop characters or crazy security guards or something.
Bill Hader -
I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you've dedicated most of your life or a big chunk of your life into doing something that you believe that you can accomplish.
Bryan Clay -
My mom and dad used to tell me, 'You've got to see this film,' and they were influential to a high degree of the films I saw as a kid.
Jason Statham
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Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.
Matt Lauer -
The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.
Howie Mandel -
I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.
Paloma Faith -
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw -
If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.
Larry Wall