Larry Wall Quotes
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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I'm not big on remakes.
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I always have stress.
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Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
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Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.
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Guys are so visual.
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I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.
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I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
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This gets better, it really does. The odd thing is, I actually think you might be telling the truth. If you were going to lie, you’d at least come up with something that made sense.
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I had to turn down a part in 'Empire of the Sun.' It would have paid £15,000, which was a year's earnings for me then, but I was offered a season at the 'National Theatre.'
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I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me.
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Where is my guilt? I can regret. I can regret that I made the party film, `Triumph of the Will,' in 1934. But I cannot regret that I lived in that time. No anti-Semitic word has ever crossed my lips. I was never anti-Semitic. I did not join the party. So where then is my guilt? You tell me. I have thrown no atomic bombs. I have never betrayed anyone. What am I guilty of?
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The good befriend themselves.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
