Larry Wall Quotes
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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I love red or deep purple lips for events.
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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I do or die, but I never cancel out.
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Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.
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If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that--perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims...
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I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.
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It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
