Larry Wall Quotes
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.
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Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
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Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt … we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.
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Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn’t spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit. We went down that path once, and it brought us to ruin.
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Take from my head the thorn-wreath brown! No mortal grief deserves that crown. O supreme Love, chief misery, The sharp regalia are for Thee Whose days eternally go on!'For us, - whatever's undergone, Thou knowest, willest what is done, Grief may be joy misunderstood; Only the Good discerns the good. I trust Thee while my days go on.
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The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts and to the singing of a bird outside his window and to the far-away voice of the sea.
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You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.
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I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.
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This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
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I like to wear what I feel good in, not what the latest trend is.
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In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no seasons.
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As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
