Larry Wall Quotes
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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.
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I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
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I can count my friends on one hand.
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Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.
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I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.
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I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.
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The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
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I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.
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My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
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If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.
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The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.
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The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people's treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.
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I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.
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The people who actually do things always suffer the slings and arrows of those who don't.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
