Larry Wall Quotes
I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.
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We love the kindly wind and hail,The jolly thunderbolt,We watch in glee the fairy trailOf ampere, watt, and volt.
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'You’re sure you want to look into these cognates? You might see things you wouldn’t like.''So long as I know the truth, I don’t care whether I like it or not.'
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Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!
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That beats any meat injection … that beats any fuckin cock in the world … Ali gasps, completely serious. It unnerves us tae the extent that ah feel ma ain genitals through ma troosers tae see if they're still thair.
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.
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I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
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It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
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I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
