Larry Wall Quotes
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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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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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There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.
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There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before - you've just got to try to think it all over again.
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To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.
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I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
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I've written under the radar for quite some time, and I always looked at editing as writing.
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People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.
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My family is very nomadic - my mom, in particular, traveled the world as a young person, and her father before that, and I guess I have that inside me.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
