Larry Wilmore Quotes
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.
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I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :
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Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.
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Think of a frog as a functional machine designed to produce baby frogs. This is the Darwinian view, and is really what evolution is all about. In order to succeed, the frog has to stay alive long enough to grow up and get pregnant or get some female frog pregnant. That means it has to do two things. It has to eat. And it has to avoid being eaten.
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I always back UN action where we can find it, but I do not think it should be a limit to our help. There have been multiple UN resolutions that say to Assad: stop killing indiscriminately your own citizens.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
