Larry Wall Quotes
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
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If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
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I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.
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Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better.
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Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.
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Isn’t Hollywood a dump - in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.
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To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.
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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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What a lot of people don't realise is that damage to hair starts from washing your hair in a rush and not taking all the product out such as leave-in conditioners. So I always make sure that I cleanse my hair properly and get the shampoo and conditioner completely out.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
