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I want to get better, that's first and foremost. Mr. Rooney and the organization paid me so I gotta perform now. Last year there wasn't as much pressure on me because they didn't know what to expect. Now I want to make sure that they know they made the right choice.


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LARRY WALL For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
LARRY WALL Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
LARRY WALL The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, ...
LARRY WALL Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. W...
LARRY WALL Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and the...
LARRY SPEAKES You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
LARRY SPEAKES Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
LARRY SPEAKES We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you'...
LARRY SMITH Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your care...
LARRY SMITH If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work,...
LARRY SMITH Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It...
LARRY SMITH I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.
LARRY RIVERS I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black...
LARRY RIVERS Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
LARRY RIVERS I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
LARRY RIVERS If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.
LARRY POONS A great painting is a great painting.
LARRY POONS If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at...
LARRY POONS The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
LARRY POONS There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
LARRY POONS There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, t...
LARRY POONS I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as...
LARRY PAGE We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
LARRY PAGE We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government ove...
LARRY PAGE I can't really comment on rumors.
LARRY PAGE We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for o...
LARRY PAGE We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create...
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