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'm more relaxed and just feel like there's kind of a peace with myself.
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Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.
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Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.
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I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
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When we first started, we wanted our music videos to be a part of the whole story, but it was never something that we would think about during the writing of the song. It would always be just getting to work with young, ambitious directors and screenwriters that would want to try something out.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
