Larry Wall Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
I'm not a control freak.
Fiona Apple -
I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
Walter Kirn -
I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
Rachelle Lefevre -
You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
Maisie Williams -
I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
Mahesh Babu
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Saint Augustine -
The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
J. A. Konrath -
Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
Owen Wilson -
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
Ralph Bakshi -
If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
Nate Berkus -
I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
Valerie Plame -
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln -
My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
Banks -
I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
Tamsin Greig -
There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
J. Michael Straczynski -
As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.
Vernon Wells
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A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
James Wolfe -
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno -
It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.
Elizabeth Vargas -
Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
Saadi -
Baseball's what I do.
Bill Buckner -
If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
Larry Wall