Larry Wall Quotes
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
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Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
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When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
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My mum will always come and see my shows if she can, and if she can't, she'll text or email just before wishing me a great show and telling me how much she loves me. She still gives tonnes of positive reinforcement and love. It's really remarkable what that does for a child, and it's really remarkable what that does for me as an adult.
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We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.
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I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
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I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen' ('Children's and Household Tales') was first published in 1812. The book was not intended for young readers.
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I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.
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And so this visit, this hallowed ground, reminds us that we must never, ever take our progress for granted. We must commit perennially to peace, which binds us across oceans.
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The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.
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I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.
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Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right
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Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.
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Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.
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Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.
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One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
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Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...
