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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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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Ces beaux et grands navires, imperceptiblement balancés (dandinés) sur les eaux tranquilles, ces robustes navires, à l'air désœuvré et nostalgique, ne nous disent-ils pas dans une langue muette : Quand partons-nous pour le bonheur?
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I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.
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Obviously I'm very disappointed. I trained very hard this summer and felt in a good shape to play the U.S. Open.
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Nausea is a normal but unpleasant effect of pregnancy and a really good sign that it is going well. Women who experience nausea in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.
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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
