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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Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call and ask a question about E-ZPass, you're talking to a Xerox person.
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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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'Look,' I said. 'Something that needs your attention. Over there. Away from here.'
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I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with... even if you make a mistake, it's okay, it's only fashion.
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Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.
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A problem shared is attention gained.
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We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.
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Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
