Larry Wall Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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I put castor oil in my eyebrows. And I also tint my eyebrows when I get them cleaned up. That way, I don't have to be constantly filling them in, because I'm lazy.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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I think that's the biggest misconception - that in order for me to be sexy I have to make sure my boobs are out.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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