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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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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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it's comforting when you're near someone and you recognize their smell.
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Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
