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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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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Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
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I know, everybody thinks that all Aussies love beer. I guess most of them do, but not me.
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How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.
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I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
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I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.
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As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.
