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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I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
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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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When we came to this country, unfortunately, my father lost his job, and we were this close to destitution. We were put on food stamps. We were put in public housing.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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I'm promoting partying and having fun and being that type of American. I don't wanna hurt nobody's feelings.
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I personally have gone to photo shoots and see the pictures afterwards, and I don't look like me because I'm just so airbrushed and so, kind of, fake and almost plastic-looking, you know?
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Dignity belongs to the conquered.
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On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
