Larry Wall Quotes
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
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I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.
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I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
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Quite absurd, because Caleb has absolutely no taste for fornication. He never has had. So lucky, being a clergyman.
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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
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I'll battle this bitter finale,Just me, my dignity and this guitar case.
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I feel like if you told me I would be having a son, I would be like, 'Yeah, I'm gonna be a parent - I get that.' But when the doctor was like, 'You're gonna have a girl,' I was like, 'What? Who am I?' It's the craziest piece of information that changes who you are. It's sweet.
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The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.
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The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.
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We didn't have the phrase 'style icon' when I was young, but I have to say, I really copied Bob Dylan when I was younger: a little bit of Bob Dylan or a lot of Bob Dylan and the French symbolist poets - I liked how they dressed - and Catholic school boys.
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Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
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I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'
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What's interesting about playing Maura is that I get to use more of Jeffrey that I've ever used in any role, and I think that's the remarkable part about it and truly the most surprising part about doing this role.
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The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Is a man less of a man, because he's learned to hold his tongue?
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
