Larry Wall Quotes
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.
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I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
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Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
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There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.
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For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.
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Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.
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I like to run fast but not drive.
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I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.
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I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.
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As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
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Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.
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No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.
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... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.
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Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
