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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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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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.
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When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.
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Freedom is not an accident. Progress is not an accident. Democracy is not an accident. These are things that have to be fought for. You’re part of that legacy. They must be won. And they’ve got to be tended to constantly and defended without fail.
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All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team.
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Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (2003)
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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.
