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 don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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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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The smallest bacterium is so much more like people than Stanley Miller’s mixtures of chemicals, because it already has these system properties. So to go from a bacterium to people is less of a step than to go from a mixture of amino acids to that bacterium.
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We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition, never taken out of the box.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
