Larry Wall Quotes
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
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I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.
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That kind of skeptical, questioning, 'don't accept what authority tells you' attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.
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I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
