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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On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.
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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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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.
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Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
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It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.
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I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.
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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.
