Larry Wall Quotes
(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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I'm not a futurist, so I don't spend a lot of time thinking about 20 years from now.
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When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
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Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.
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Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
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Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.
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(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
