Larry Wall Quotes
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.
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'Is this being in love?' he suddenly wondered? It was nothing like the ballads he had heard sung-this was more irritating than uplifting.
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Jewel-Like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of the moment.
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He has the quality you can’t define, call it magic.
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We were too light, Electra. Now our feet press down in the earth like the wheels of a cart in its groove. Come with me, and we will walk heavily, bending under the weight of our heavy load.
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Once you've achieved success, and you're making decisions that are working, I don't understand why anyone would be second-guessing themselves.
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For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.
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I wanted to be able to say I was a Marine.
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I don't think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.
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I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.
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There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.
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You don't ever lose your dream. You don't give that up. I tell that to the players. If you don't have dreams, you don't have anything to live for.
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Michael Owen will get double figures this season - or at least 10, possibly more.
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There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.
