Larry Wall Quotes
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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The American people are frustrated.
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To me, my business is my life.
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The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty.
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You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.
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Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
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In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.
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I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.
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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense. How could this young girl from the suburbs of Detroit become a success in New York? It was always that dream.
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Hassan slumps to the asphalt, his life of unrequited loyalty drifting from him like the windblown kites he used to chase.
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In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. Do not be fooled by apparent exceptions.
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This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.
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Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
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Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.
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Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
