Larry Wilmore Quotes
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.
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It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.
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I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
