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 worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I always say - and mean - that we civilians don't deserve the soldiers we have.
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One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
