Larry Wall Quotes
Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses Perl.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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All my books are optimistic!
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
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An ancient adage warns, 'Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.'
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If an artist is going through a lot of bad publicity, I don't want to ask them about that. If they want to talk about it, I'll make them comfortable enough where they can bring that up on their own. Not only do I want them to feel comfortable, I want them to come back.
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I say it often, that I feel like I'm just living out the Story Mode in 'Smackdown vs. RAW' that I always used to play.
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My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.
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Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses Perl.
