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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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 am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I will never give my influence, either as a private citizen or a public servant, for war, so long as it can be honorably avoided.
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Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the world of the Presidency, I think of him.
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I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
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The thing that I would say you get the most hate about on social media, in my experience, is if you tweet anything about women's rights or feminism. It blows my mind. But it's the thought of not being a feminist that actually blows my mind.
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On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
