Larry Wall Quotes
Jesse Vincent: My dog is Web 2.0. Prove me wrong.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?Damian Conway: If you enjoyed these practices, find 245 more like this in this book.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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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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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
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I've had pretty much the same crew for all the films that I've made, and I've managed to have really nice, calm, funny people. That is a big part of it, a family feeling of warmth and finding something interesting and making a platform for them to perform. It's a very difficult job, acting, in that it's totally counterintuitive to how we are brought up.
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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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I have...a terrible need...shall I say the word?...of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.
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Jesse Vincent: My dog is Web 2.0. Prove me wrong.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?Damian Conway: If you enjoyed these practices, find 245 more like this in this book.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?
