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 am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.
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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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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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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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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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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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Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
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Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.
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I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.
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Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I'm saying?
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I recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. And I have always recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the independent, fully sovereign Palestinian state that we all want to emerge from negotiations toward a true two-state solution.
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: I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .]Gee, it took me about eleven years.
