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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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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The downside to making movies at a gallop like we did with 'Wish You Were Here' is that we're shooting four or five scenes in a day, and it's very exhilarating, but you worry at the end of the day that you missed some details because you were moving too quick, and you just gotta trust and be ready straightaway.
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Everybody loves monsters.
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Some films, you're lucky enough to get some rehearsal, which is just basic going through the scene, and, 'These are my questions, and this is what I'm trying to achieve,' and you work things out, and maybe a few line changes here or there.
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There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.
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You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.
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What the Muslims do to their own children is worse than Hitler.
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
