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 comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.
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Element of surprise is really fun for me in comedy. I have to be surprised, and everything's been done.
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The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.
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I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.
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Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
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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.
