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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If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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I'm open to all kind of scripts. As long as there's enough scope to perform, I'd take up the offer. In fact, before Yuvan and 'TT' happened, I got an opportunity to work with a top actor-director combination. But my height proved to be a setback.
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Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
