Larry Wall Quotes
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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I can clap with one hand.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
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I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time.
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Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
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Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.
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Sciatica: he cured it, by boyling his buttock.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
