Larry Wall Quotes
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak.
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High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Although our cost reduction efforts will position Kodak for an improved 1998, the growing strength of the U.S. dollar, continuing competitive pressures and the phased implementation of the cost reduction program will make it likely that results during the first quarter of 1998 will be below those of 1997
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When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.
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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.
