Larry Wall Quotes
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I have a secret love of jazz.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.
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An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
