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.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • You
  • Child
  • Divorce

• 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.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Me
  • Nothing

• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• 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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Always
  • Said
  • Employment

• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Play
  • Politics

• 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.

  

  Sampha
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Technology

• You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • You
  • Right Time

• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Genre
  • Kinds

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Money
  • Support

• 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

• In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Envy
  • Lived
  • Hotel

• I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Theory
  • Piano
  • Started

• Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Beginning

• 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.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Love
  • Really
  • Labor

• It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those, and I started with local artists in Boston, writing records for them.

  

  Clinton Sparks
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Our outer world will always be a reflection of our inner world. Our level of success is always going to parallel our level of personal development. Until we dedicate time each day to developing ourselves into the person we need to be to create the life we want, success is always going to be a struggle to attain.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Movies

• And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• 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.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
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