Larry Wall Quotes
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I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
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In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.
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I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.
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Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.
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I've been told from the start, 'Don't fall in love with the horses'. But that's so hard. I'm in awe.
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There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.
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Good scripts are hard to find.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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Soldiers - You are about to return to your homes and your friends, after having, as I learn, performed in camp a comparatively short term of duty in this great contest. I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
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Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.
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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
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I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies.
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Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.
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It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure.
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Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
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When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.
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He's the reason why I write music. If he's reading this - James Taylor, I'd love to work with you! My mom would put headphones on her belly before I was born, so I've been listening to him literally all of my life. When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away.
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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
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Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.
