Larry Wall Quotes
And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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I love football, football is my life.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
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I have never gotten my nails done.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.
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I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
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I never come to know if somebody is in love with me; they will have to hold placards and say it.
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With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.
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It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.
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And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...
