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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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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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 get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire
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When a governor asks you to come and serve... or a president, subsequently in my life - you do so.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.
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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.
