Larry Wall Quotes
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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I had lost faith in biography.
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.
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I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.
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I'm not really in touch with those 'Seinfeld' lads except Jason Alexander.
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The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
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You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
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We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.
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'The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.'
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To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.
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We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.
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They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
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I get hired more then I get seen more. I get seen more then maybe celebrity and fame happens but at the end of the day there's no difference between my five dollar performance and my fifty million dollar performance. It's not going to make me a better father.
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That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
