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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I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitation of celebrity. With Facebook, we choose a photo that is not too good a photo - we're more arch than that. We're our own celebrity publicists. We understand it so innately.
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The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.
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Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
