Larry Wilmore Quotes
In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.
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Because that’s what a book is: a letter from a writer to a reader. It’s connection. Something that reaches across the divides of time and space and brings us closer together.
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But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.
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The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
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In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
