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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I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
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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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When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
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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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Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.
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Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.
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One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
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I think Twitter is great.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
