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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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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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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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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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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I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.
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Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.
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If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I don't feel any pressure to have any kind of authoritative, universal voice. That kind of thing has never interested me.
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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
