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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The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly
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Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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I always get made fun of by my teammates for my huge calves, but I'm like, 'they make me strong and fast!'
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I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.
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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
