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
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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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.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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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.
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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.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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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.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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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.
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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.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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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.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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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.
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At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.
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The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I'll go surf. The beach is 10 minutes away.
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It's not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. And that, I think, might be one of the additional superpowers that, quite frankly, women who don't ask for raises have. Because that's good karma. It'll come back. Because somebody's going to know: 'That's the kind of person that I want to trust. That's the kind of person that I want to really give more responsibility to.'
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I think I just have to be myself. No one can write the songs I do, and no one can sing the way I do - I believe that's important for every artist to remember.
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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.
