Larry Wall Quotes
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
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I like to impress myself when I dress.
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The fans treated me royally.
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Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.
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I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.
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If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll.
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I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
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The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
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I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.
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Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.
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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
