Larry Wall Quotes
I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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I have never lived in a time when people haven't told me what I look like.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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Now, more than ever, the international community must act.
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Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.
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I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
