Larry Wall Quotes
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.
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I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
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I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people can say that. I wrote the songs I wanted to write, for me. I had no idea that 'American Pie' would relate to anybody.
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I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping in Havana. But nobody warned me that Havana also always feels like an exhausting nightmare that never quite fulfills the promise of what it's threatening you with.
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I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.
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I'm more optimistic than most.
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After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.
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I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.
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The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.
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Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.
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Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.
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For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'
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Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways.
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I have candy around my bed. I just kinda like reach over and eat it and then go back to sleep, no problem.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
