Larry Wall Quotes
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
Ed Koch -
That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
Adam McKay -
I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
Ian Anderson -
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
Ted Turner -
Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
Irina Shayk -
The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
Orison Swett Marden
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke -
'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
Laura Mvula -
I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
Gavin Bryars -
I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
Warren Bennis -
I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
J. Cole
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
Walter Cronkite -
We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
Om Puri -
I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.
Olivia Holt -
Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
Samantha Power -
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
Vaclav Havel -
Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.
Umberto Eco
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I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.
Amy Poehler -
My friends and my family - the people who I love and who love me back. Whenever I get down, when I want to crawl under a rock, I just look around at them and I see how rich my life is. You have to remember what’s most important in life. I am loved by so many people and have a wonderful job. I know I’m incredibly blessed. I am a completely lucky human being.
Troian Bellisario -
The Hunting Bayou and Greens Bayou watersheds have experienced major flooding over the years and are crying out for investment to protect the hundreds of thousands of residents and businesses in those areas.
Gene Green -
Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.
John Ruskin -
That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.
Larry Wall