Larry Wall Quotes
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
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The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
