Larry Wall Quotes
: I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .]Gee, it took me about eleven years.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
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You're going to start seeing open-source, self-executing contracts gradually improve over time. What the Internet did to publishing, blockchain will do to about 160 different industries. It's crazy.
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We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.
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I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
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With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.
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I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.
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I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.
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Now, a fancy ball is bad enough in London, where milliners are many, and where theatres have costumes that may be borrowed or copied ; but in the country, where people are left to their own devices-truly to them may be applied the old poet's account of murderers, 'their fancies are all frightful.'
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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The better the singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. So I turn my weaknesses into an advantage.
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The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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I can hang with the dudes because I love beef and baseball and driving fast and flirting. I understand where men are coming from, and I'm interested in typically male endeavors. But I can also wear the short skirt and cheerlead.
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A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
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I love layers!
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It's amazing how people will treat you better when you're 'somebody.' The minute clerks in a store recognize me, they suddenly rush to take care of me. That irritates me.
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Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
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For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.
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The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
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I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.
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: I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .]Gee, it took me about eleven years.
