Larry Wall Quotes
There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
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I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
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I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything.
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Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.
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The obstacle is the USA administration. I know there is a strong Israeli lobby in America, no doubt of it.
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There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
