Larry Wall Quotes
... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
Quotes to Explore
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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For me, it's infinitely more interesting to read or watch a character making decisions they think are right, but the audience knows differently, and seeing that disconnect. The only way characters can grow and learn is by making the wrong decisions and then learning from them.
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Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I've always wished that for myself.
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I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'
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You can't deny the experience of a store. It's fantastic if you're a global brand and you've got the power or the funds to support that bricks-and-mortar space, but we certainly weren't and aren't.
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... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
