Larry Wall Quotes
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.
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We will support anything to stabilize the oil demand and supply.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.
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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
