Larry Wall Quotes
Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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I always have issues with trust.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
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I trust no one totally.
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.
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I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.
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I don't trust a lot of journalists.
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Brands are all about trust. That trust is built in drops and lost in buckets.
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What I would say to young women is: Pay attention to the real. Pay attention to what you're really thirsting for. What do you really want? And I think that's much harder to decipher in a culture that has no interest in it. What interests me is, are we going to wake in time? Are human beings going to wake up to ourselves, to the incredible poverty that's on this planet, to what we're doing to the earth, to what we're doing to women, to what we're doing to boys? That's what's important.
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I was happy to be in Afghanistan, doing these real-world operations and taking the fight to the terrorists that attacked us.
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To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
