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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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.
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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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My dream is to leave this business on my own terms, and if it were my terms, I would love to do the Royal Rumble. I would love to do Wrestle Mania in New Orleans, because I had so many matches there over the years working for Mid-South. I was in the ring with Muhammad Ali in the Superdome. To close it there would be great.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
