Larry Wall Quotes
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.)
Quotes to Explore
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
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I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.
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Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.
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The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
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Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.)
