Larry Wall Quotes
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.
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A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
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I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
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And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.
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This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
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I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.
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I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.
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I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.
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I was like, "Oh my god, I hope you're secretly grossed out about everything that [Donald] Trump has been doing." But why is it such a shock to anybody? He's said so many things that show who he is and how ignorant he is from the beginning.
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When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me.
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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
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As far as the Middle East and North Africa is concerned, we need to reconsider the question of reliability and stability of hydrocarbons.
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So far we've managed to avoid turning Perl into APL.
