Larry Wall Quotes
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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I always try to make each character my own.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
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Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.
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I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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You win with your feet. It looks easy, and it's not.
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Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.
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The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.
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Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
