Larry Wilmore Quotes
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.
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I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
