Larry Wilmore Quotes

I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.

Larry Wilmore

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• The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Family
  • Business
  • Job

• 'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Game
  • Way
  • Me

• Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • May
  • Road
  • Wait

• Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.

  

  Felice Picano
  • People
  • Book
  • Words

• What is a Muslim neighborhood? How many Muslims have to be in a neighborhood before it becomes worthy of checking papers and kicking in the doors of homes and businesses?

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Doors
  • Before
  • Neighborhood

• I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Work
  • Together
  • Dark

• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Best

• At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • World
  • Writing
  • Song

• I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Book
  • Desire
  • Language

• The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Business
  • Me
  • Goal

• A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Good
  • Hurt
  • Old

• Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Detail

• If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Imagine
  • Achieve
  • Farming

• When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Know
  • Proud

• There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

  

  Tom Berenger
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Pressure
  • Stress

• My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Mind
  • Light
  • Sleep

• I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• This guy obviously wants to be a prophet so bad. I wonder if he walks around at home dressed up in a bedsheet, talking Aramaic, maybe parting the waters in the bathtub occasionally, just to keep in practice?

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Home
  • Bad

• I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Things