Larry Wilmore Quotes
I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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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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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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Director Park always talked to me about her in a very innocent way, that the story was of her coming of age and her sexual awakening and her going from girl to woman and that she had the same desires and hopes as other young people in terms of being very infatuated, which comes in the form of her uncle, which is very unconventional.
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In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
