Larry Wall Quotes
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When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.
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Figure out who you are.
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My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.
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High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.
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I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.
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We do like digital projection. We like shooting on film, finishing digitally, and projection digitally. That's what I like best. It's still a movie. It's not someone's camcorder and it got projected. That's mean, I know.
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I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
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I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
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Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.
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Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?
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'Yes yes yes, later. For now I would ask you to proclaim next Friday from the mimbar in the masjid that the French are protectors of the faith and friends of the Prophet.'
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I make no excuses. It is what is it. I came up short. I took a chance, it didn't pay off. I'll be back.
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I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.
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I used to be very figurative and also just kind of scared to talk about the way I felt in a literal way.
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I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.
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When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!
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I'm not suffering from some division of personality.
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It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
