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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The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'
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I didn't just wake up one day understanding how to take care of myself. I had to learn how to do so over time, and I continue to learn - each and every day. This is a process, and my body is constantly changing. So is yours. And when I learned how to accept that I will always be like this, I relaxed. Our bodies do not stand still for time.
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The Candy Man can
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I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.
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Animals are completely grounded in their root chakra.
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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
