Larry Wall Quotes
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
Edgardo Osorio -
Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
Laura Schlessinger -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
Daniel Craig -
Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
Valerie Bertinelli -
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
Gary Hart
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
Tamra Davis -
Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
K. Flay -
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
Barry McGuire -
I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
Gary Bettman -
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
Ida B. Wells -
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
Orlando Bloom
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
Daniel Craig -
When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
B. B. King -
I'm a little bit of a control freak.
Harlan Coben -
As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.
Naomi Klein -
Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
Walter Cronkite -
I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
Dambisa Moyo
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As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.
John Ortberg -
I worried so long that I would sing to empty bars my whole life. I was singing my guts out; there would be five people into it.
Margo Price -
When I used to work in television, a tip was rather than looking down the barrel of the camera and imagine people watching, which is terrifying, imagine your most discerning friend observing you, and imagine you're just talking to them.
Alexa Chung -
The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women's cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.
Dwayne Johnson -
That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.
Larry Wall