Larry Wall Quotes
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Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I'm a real girly-girl.
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.
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It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.
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It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.
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There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.
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Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
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The social revolution has been slow in reaching our country. We have been exempt, not because we had solved the problems, but because we had not yet confronted them.
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I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
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Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat them that way. That's why I always say don't stare right at a chick. She'll begin to fidget, wondering if her hair's messed up or if her make-up is smeared. It's kind of like going to an art gallery to see beautiful paintings. If you look at a painting just the right way, you get the most out of it!
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The best horses walk through the gates and they grow and rise to the occasion. They feel like they can do anything and that gives the rider confidence in return.
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...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.
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I've always known what I wanted. I've always wanted to be on top of that podium.
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On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
