Larry Wilmore Quotes
I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.Larry Wilmore
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
Malcolm Gladwell -
At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
Garry Disher -
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
Illeana Douglas -
When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
Daniel Barenboim -
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
Pankaj Mishra
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr -
We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
Fay Weldon -
I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.
Kate Winslet -
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier -
My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
Abbie Cornish -
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
Natasha Leggero
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
Abraham Lincoln -
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dali -
To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
Ma Jian -
I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
Paloma Elsesser -
I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
Ed Westwick
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People might not view me as competitive as I really am.
Patrick Kane -
How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.
Bernard Joseph Saurin -
I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories.
Jennifer Egan -
I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
Larry Wilmore