Larry Wall Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.
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Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece band for a solid two years. It was me playing acoustic and rhythm electric guitar, a bass player, a drummer and a lead guitar player. For a couple of years, we sounded like the Foo Fighters.
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It might take me an hour to get to feel at ease with somebody. I don't find it easy to go into a room full of 10 people and give it all away. In the pilot season in Los Angeles I've done that a couple of times.
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I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It's just a great thing.
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I have to keep making films, getting better in my craft, and the way to do that is to work with people who know what they're doing and who can help me.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
