Larry Wall Quotes
The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I love the Americans. They are my best friends.
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'
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I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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I dig Steve Harvey: he's the suit man. I be checking him out.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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I read French much better than I speak.
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I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.
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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 do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.
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He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
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My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.
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Her questions about whether Palmer would have raped her if she hadn’t been taking a forbidden bath on the job, if she’d remembered to lock the bathroom door, if she had tried to fight despite his knife—all her secret worry that it was these mistakes, her mistakes, that had caused her rape—were revealed to her as utter and total bullshit. If she’d been strutting down the street buck-naked, he didn’t have a right to touch her. No. If that woman across the street told her husband he was the worst fuck in history and gave him dog food for dinner, he didn’t have a right to hit her. No. Just because women were blamed for everything but good luck didn’t give nobody a right to do them wrong. And it didn’t mean they were supposed to take it when they were done wrong. All this woman-hurting shit had to stop. “Stop!”
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A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.
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To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.
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I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
