Larry Wall Quotes
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a pure child who has an inner glow none of the others in the book possess. They reject her because she is different, and they try in every possible manner to destroy her, because they are jealous. It is an extraordinary love story.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn't honor their promises to the people.
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When a place comes across vividly in a novel, it's often compared to a character. I can remember writing teachers who encouraged me to treat setting as if it were a character, to give it three dimensions, to make it come alive, jump off the page.
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