Larry Wall Quotes
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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I have done Botox, and I loved it.
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
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You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.
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I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
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I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
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With their propagandistic frame of mind, feminist leaders never admitted that their opponents could be equally motivated by ethics.
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
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The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
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'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
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People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.
