Larry Wilmore Quotes
There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them.
Quotes to Explore
-
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
-
Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
-
As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
-
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
-
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
-
A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
-
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
-
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
-
My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
-
The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
-
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
-
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
-
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
-
No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
-
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
-
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
-
At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
-
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
-
We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
-
I believe every American willing to work hard should be able to find a job that provides dignity, pride and decent pay that can support a family.
-
It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.
-
The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.
-
There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them.
