Larry Wall Quotes
Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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I think, No. 1, I still have a long way to go.
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
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As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.
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Contrast force and morality with each other. How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
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'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
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When you're guest-starring on another show, it really requires you to jump through hoops in a way, because you're servicing the stories of the main characters. You have to be able to portray a lot of different elements. You show up and get on board and get on their journey; you have to be flexible as to what they need for the role.
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Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.
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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
