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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It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.
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I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
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Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
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We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
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Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
