Larry Wall Quotes
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I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
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Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.
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I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
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Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
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I pitched and I played the outfield.
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My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.
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The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
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India is a country of empty words, not action. Only repeating, 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' won't help. Learn to finish the race first in order to finish first.
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The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
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In all technologically 'advanced' countries, fashion has replaced tradition, so that involuntary membership in a society can no longer provide a feeling of community.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.
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So he died, because for a split second he got brave. But not then. He died much later, after the split second of bravery had faded into long hours of wretched gasping fear, and after the long hours of fear had exploded into long minutes of insane screaming panic.
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You sometimes get a thrill at knowing where you are. You’re often filled with wonder, but more often you are puzzled. You are reminded, again and yet again, of how insignificant you are. And there are times when you forget that you are human. You’re just a blob of life-brother to everything that ever existed or ever will exist.
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...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?
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I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.
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Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
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A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
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Time, that aged nurse,Rocked me to patience.
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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
