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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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.
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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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My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.
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Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.
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I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.
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O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you?
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I had applied for a job at Imperial Chemical Industries in 1948 and was called for a personal interview. However I failed to get selected. Many years later, I succeeded in finding out why I had been rejected. The remarks written by the selectors on my application were: 'This woman is headstrong, obstinate and dangerously self-opinionated!'
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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.
