Larry Wall Quotes
So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
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Behind the panic: financial warfare over future of global bank power
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I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.
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If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground.
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You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
