Larry Wall Quotes
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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Everyone has hiccups in their families.
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Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
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If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's kind of the version of Harland you'd get - silly, kind of always saying wacky things.
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Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.
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Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.
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It's kind of exciting again. I'm doing everything right, right now. I'm driving the ball well and I'm hitting some pretty good irons and giving myself opportunities.
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Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and take longer than you'd like (it may even be painful), but other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected. But either way - it is important, and it feels so much better when it's done.
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I find that a drumkit is essential for any festival we play these days.
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Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
