Larry Wall Quotes
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
Larry Brown -
I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
Gary Numan -
I have done Botox, and I loved it.
Olivia Colman -
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
Rand Paul -
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
Yehuda Amichai -
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
Salman Rushdie
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
Salma Hayek -
Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
Sam Weller -
My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
Lamar Odom -
I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
Malcolm Mclaren -
I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
Yoko Ono -
With their propagandistic frame of mind, feminist leaders never admitted that their opponents could be equally motivated by ethics.
Camille Paglia
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
Abraham Maslow -
The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
Edward Gibbon -
'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
Ayn Rand -
Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
Adam Smith -
I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I'm never going to work again.
David Harewood -
The contrasting focus on connection versus hierarchy also sheds light on innumerable adult conversations - and frustrations. Say a woman tells another about a personal problem and hears in response, 'I know how you feel' or 'the same thing happens to me.' The resulting 'troubles talk' reinforces the connection between them.
Deborah Tannen
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I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem.
Bill Pullman -
And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.
Mark Spitz -
Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.
George Packer -
Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
Larry Wall