Larry Wilmore Quotes

I'm understated in my approach.

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• With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Performance
  • Greatest

• I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Sex

• People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Love
  • Truth

• Developing nations want to become developed nations.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Want
  • Become
  • Nations

• I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Writing
  • Years
  • Old

• One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Different
  • Greatest

• If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.

  

  Edmund White
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Beach

• There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

  

  Peter Davison
  • Poetry

• Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

  

  Matthew Prior

• Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
  • Family
  • Society
  • Responsibility

• I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform.

  

  Holly Hunter

• The mad, cruel, and accursed American war.

  

  Lord George Gordon
  • American
  • War
  • Mad

• Oon ere it herde, at tothir out it wente

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer

• Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Light
  • Air
  • Photograph

• What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Song

• All of us in Fiji, the Government and the people, are very proud for what you have achieved in reaching the finals of this year's Hong Kong Sevens.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • People
  • Government
  • Proud

• At this stage, there is no reason why he would not be selected on the spring tour. Like every player in the squad, his performance during the winter season will be reviewed and evaluated but he is the current Australian captain and the right man to lead the team through this next period of time.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Time
  • Why
  • Team

• CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images and manipulating them. The way we did it, everything was actual photographed images. A lot of that stuff was shot through a microscope of chemical reactions, yeast growing, lots of weird things, by Peter Parks. We put it into a computer and collaged it, manipulated it. Meaning we digitally shaped it to fit with other images. But there was no computer-generated imagery at all.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Growing
  • Mean
  • Weird

• With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.

  

  Michael Gove
  • Struggle
  • Exception
  • Lanes

• I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

  

  David Rees
  • Wanted
  • Because
  • Sharpen

• There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Live
  • Money
  • Romantic

• I'm understated in my approach.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Approach
  • Understated