Larry Wall Quotes
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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There is no truly global justice.
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It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
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The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
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An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
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I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.
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In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects.
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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
