Larry Wall Quotes
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.
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I love feminine soft shades for summers - I like pastels and bright hues, too. I like summer dresses and tank tops; I think they never go out of style. As much as I'm happy with Western wear for red carpet and social dos, I also like Indian ethnic wear for special occasions.
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The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
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When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
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I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.
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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
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The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be worthy of the attention of the Creator; how, then, should other living creatures be considered as proper objects for Divine Providence!
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The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts. The day was green. They said, 'You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are.' The man replied, 'Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar.' And they said then, 'But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves, A tune upon the blue guitar Of things exactly as they are.'
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It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it.
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It was abominable - wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.
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It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.
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The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.
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I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.
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I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.
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I want the humans to be able to hold their own against the strength of the machines.
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But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us.
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What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.
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Odd that we think definitions are definitive.
