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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Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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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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You're the ones who are going to have to seize freedom, because a true revolution of the spirit begins in each of our hearts.
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This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa Dorfman and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.
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In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.
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The best way to honor real people when you play them is to try to tell the story of their dynamics and the struggles that they're dealing with rather than lose sight of the connections and personal relationships, and do a really good job at an accent.
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The semiliterate on the next bar stool will tell you with absolute, arrogant assurance just how to solve the world's problems; while the scholar who has spent a lifetime studying their causes is not at all sure how to do this.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.
