Larry Wall Quotes
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
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In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.
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For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.
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Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
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I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.
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Plowboy: In your opinion, what are mankind's prospects for the near future?
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In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.
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If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.
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I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.
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It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.
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If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
