Larry Wall Quotes
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
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I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.
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Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.
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People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.
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Taking ownership of your feelings is so vital to getting better.
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Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.
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As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.
