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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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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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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If you were placing bets on which author would write the tenderest, most moving book about fatherhood, Philip Roth would probably come in at the bottom of the list.
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I remember seeing the first episode of '24' when I was 13, and to be that face for a 13-year-old and open up that possibility, it shows you the world isn't on fire. There's possibility there.
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To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.
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I can be the best light-middleweight in the world.
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Half voluntarily, half Winston's older brother [William] would take me in, saying, "Daddy, I think you oughta do this." And I'd say, "I think you're right, maybe I do need it." Sometimes a week later I'd leave the place; sometimes I'd stick it out for a month.
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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.
