Larry Wall Quotes
People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.

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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
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In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.
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The actors feel that the music played before the curtain rises will put the audience in the wrong mood. The playwright suggests that the (purposefully lugubrious) music be played at twice-speed. This peps it up somewhat while retaining its essentially dark and gloomy character. The actors listen carefully, and are pleased.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.