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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There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I'm in that day.
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It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
