Larry Wall Quotes
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I'm not a control freak.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I drink lots of water, and I've been trying to do daily wheatgrass shots, but they're awful, and I have to plug my nose.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
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I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
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There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.
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I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music.
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The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
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I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be ready to laugh? It was a release for everyone.
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I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
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Of course, any movie that I make, that is released everywhere, gets a lot of exposure.
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I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
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It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.