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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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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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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She wanted people, especially women, to see these as years that could be creative and productive.
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You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every day.
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I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.
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I had four combat tours, and I never saw death on a scale like I saw in Haiti. A quarter-million people lost their lives.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
