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 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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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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Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
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I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I'm never going to work again.
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Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.
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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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Cooking is my love language, where there's the most amount of giving selflessly. … It's more about the health benefits than the ethics. But it's compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
