Larry Wall Quotes
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood, so in that regard, I feel incredibly fortunate.
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We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.
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Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
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As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.
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My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.
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'The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden,' said Papa Moose, 'now that snakes can’t talk.'
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‘Stinko, is he?’'Not perhaps stinko, but certainly effervescent.’
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No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into 'the secrets of the nether world,' as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.
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When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion.
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I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.
