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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'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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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I honestly don't think about myself; it's more about my kids. They were both born in L.A., and they're like little beams of sun, little tornadoes, and they can't be in a confined space. And one of the things I love most about L.A. is the freedom there.
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I see (humor) in the smallest things.
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I have this bodyguard so if I get tired of signing Autographs I ask him to step in. It's hard because people get angry at you, but I've got a life to live too.
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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.
