Larry Wall Quotes
P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
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I want to show people they don't have to be scared of being different.
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Simon Wiesenthal will forever be rightly credited with ensuring justice was done for some of the worst crimes in history...He was tireless in his efforts and he gave the Jewish communities in the UK and around the world a lifetime of service, and future generations will forever be indebted to him. His important work will be continued by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, ensuring that his name and legacy are preserved. The name Simon Wiesenthal will forever be synonymous with justice and fostering tolerance and understanding.
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The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.
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I love to fight. I love the preparation. I love to learn new things, always overcoming myself.
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P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
