Larry Wall Quotes
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.
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'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
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Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.
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People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
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You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
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The officials want China to be seen as a cultured, creative nation, but in this anti-liberal political society everything outside the direct control of the state is seen as a potential threat.
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I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.
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My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.
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lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.
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Portability should be the default.
