Larry Wall Quotes
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
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Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.
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Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.
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All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
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Few people know how to be old.
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I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.
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The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.
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I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.
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You praise a man for having killed his enemy by means of an advantage; and by praising him for boldness you praise him for a sin against nature, because boldness leads to destruction.
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The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
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Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up... because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!
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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
