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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Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
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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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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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I have a huge amount of respect for all Japanese designers because I think there is consistency and respect to craft.
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We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
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The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
