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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'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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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 only standard journalists respect is: Will this story promote the left-wing agenda?
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Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.
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The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
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I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.
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The story of Ilium, the ancient city of Troy, has always gripped me.
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The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!
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Portability should be the default.
