Larry Wall Quotes
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Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
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For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.
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I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
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I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
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Sci-fi fans are awesome. They're very smart, they like to be involved, they like to ask questions. I've been asked questions I don't even know the answer to. I've never had any aggressive interactions. I've had lovely interactions.
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One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.
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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.
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I never wanted to go to university: books seemed to have all the answers, and the questions, too. I went to work for Jean Muir as her in-house model. Miss Muir - as she will always be to me - was interested in everything.
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One of the reasons I was so proud to be born on April 3, is because I am such a big fan of yours.
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We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
