Larry Wall Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
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Neoconservatives are the boat people of the McGovern revolution.
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Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.
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There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.
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I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
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I don't talk about my personal life in the press; that's how I kept my wedding a secret.
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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
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As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.
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'They accepted warriors...' he emphasized, '...That divinely mad type that’s so valuable when needed, and such a problem when it’s not.'
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.
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Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: 'Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.'
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
