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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I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
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A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.
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I'm very lucky to have a strong support system with my friends and my family. They have kept me grounded.
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Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.
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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
