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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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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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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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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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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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.
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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
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You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.
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There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.
