Larry Wall Quotes
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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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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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
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Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
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You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive.
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But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
