Larry Wall Quotes
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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I don't study; I create.
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Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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Fly-fishing is really addictive.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.
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I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.
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I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.
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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
