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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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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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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25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
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I always talk with models and they always tell me how awful it was growing up being tall and skinny. Then when you're older, you're really glad. I think it's nice to have been through a terrible time and then all of a sudden be so lucky because then you appreciate it.
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When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.
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The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that are engaged with them.
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The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.
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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.
