Larry Wall Quotes
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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You can express your generosity in ways that are virtually limitless. This was what I wanted to convey in 'Giving 2.0' - that whether you have $10 or $10 million to give, if you identify the right opportunities and make the most of your resources, your impact can be tremendous.
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When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.
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Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'
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I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.
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Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.
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'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.
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In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.
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Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
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I collect books - a lot of books.
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It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.
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I've not given them (the poor people of Bihar) heaven, but I've given them a voice.
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Today, I am no longer concerned with photography as an art form. I believe it is potentially the best medium for explaining man to himself and his fellow man.
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Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.
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I behave differently in different situations, and I'm slightly unstable and insecure, which I think are natural conditions of what I do. And I have a weird ear. Whatever I hear, I emulate. When I was a kid I did impressions: Forrest Gump, Rain Man, really big caricatures.
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Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. Maybe sometimes. Not today. Today they were driving along an endless two-lane highway through the forested hills of Connecticut.
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You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.
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When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
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On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
