Larry Wall Quotes
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.
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I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
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I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.
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I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
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If you want to eat chocolate or cakes, you have to eat it in the morning, for breakfast or lunch - don't eat it in the night.
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In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards.
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We may never be as big as WWE, but the cool thing about TNA is that we are the alternative. So people who get tired and bored with the WWE - I've been there, I understand - there's an alternative and something else to watch.
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We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.
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If I had gone to Madrid, I would have scored more than 200 goals, but I knew I would have got bored.
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Call me bored, but don't call me boring.
