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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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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I once dated a girl that was wild. She was so wild that one night she gave her phone number to the mechanical bull.
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If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?
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I firmly ascribe to the concept that music is 100 percent subjective. If you’re hearing music and it sounds good and beautiful to you, then that makes it beautiful. It’s all within the listener. It’s not important for other people to tell you how they react.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
