Larry Wall Quotes
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
Quotes to Explore
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I always drive like a madman.
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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I think people are a little surprised sometimes at the level on which I actually talk. I don't talk like Caine. And every once in a while, somebody is surprised because I smoke and I drink. But I don't feel that is a contradiction.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
