Larry Wall Quotes
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
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I just want to have fun.
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. He's done everything for me and I owe him the world.
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
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The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
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Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
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It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered.
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Quite often a man goes on for years imagining that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.
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The normalization of Trump is one indicator that there may be less to the populist insurrection than imagined.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.
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Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.
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Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.
