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.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Research
  • Academic
  • Storyteller

• This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Process
  • Alchemy
  • Smith

• 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.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Life
  • Hair
  • Maintenance

• 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.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • World
  • New
  • Saying

• You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Environment

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Me
  • Walking

• I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thought
  • Bible
  • Saying

• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Child
  • Toy
  • Youngest

• 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.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Study
  • Everything

• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Dwell

• Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Real
  • Fool
  • Genius

• 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.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Money
  • Win
  • Choose

• I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I get quite excited about things other people have worn. I went through a phase as a student when I wore a lot of 1940s tea dresses.

  

  Ashley Jensen
  • People
  • Tea

• After I got my gold medal, I thought, 'This isn't just me. It belongs to my team, my friends, my family, the fans, everybody who's impacted my life - this is our gold medal.' So when someone asks to try it on, I'm like, 'Sure, why not?' I might be a little too relaxed about it, but why would I keep it to myself?

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Why

• At the time of Apollo 11, I was a grade-schooler, and I remember every time an Apollo mission would take place that, like a lot of little boys, I'd gather in front of the TV for hours and hours and hours with my little brother.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Brother

• Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that's a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I've dreamed of since I was about 10 years old.

  

  Billy Gardell
  • Up
  • Summer
  • Vegas

• In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Man
  • Black