Larry Wall Quotes

Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

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• I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Me
  • Always
  • Horror

• As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Science
  • Religious
  • Talent

• It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Want
  • Easy

• If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Way
  • New

• I always have really fresh, hormone-free, additive-free chicken, healthy veggies, and brown rice in the fridge to grab because I'm always on the go.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Free
  • Always
  • Healthy

• Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Material

• There are so many projects on my Dream List. I have so many things in the works, just like little ideas or collections of things or things I write or even just a title of something.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Dream
  • Like
  • Ideas

• A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sometimes

• The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Me

• Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Either Man will abolish war, or war will abolish Man.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • War

• I view my own body as a petting zoo. I am the main attraction... And the only customer.

  

  Craig Ferguson

• If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Miracle

• I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Music

• Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

  

  Dora Russell
  • Great
  • Children
  • School

• I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Job

• For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Today

• You can't quantify everything a player does to win games.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Player

• When I came to New York, I told everyone I was a writer/director, and they said, 'No.' There was a rule. You could be one or the other. They ordained me writer. But then I won the Obie for directing 'Spunk,' and the rules changed.

  

  George C. Wolfe

• I think, like a lot of people on this issue, I have really changed my thinking here to, ‘I don’t ever want to stand in front of anybody’s happiness.’ That’s not my job, okay? If that word – ‘marriage’ – is really, really that important to you, I can go with it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.

  

  Dick York
  • People
  • Blessed

• I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Smart
  • Fighter

• Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

  

  Larry Wall