Larry Wall Quotes
You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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All my books are optimistic!
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.
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Men are intimidated by me: I very rarely get asked out.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
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You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.
