Larry Wall Quotes
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
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Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists.
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It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
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Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
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In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
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Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing – that was me.
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A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
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You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!