Larry Wilmore Quotes
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.
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If we are enforcing what should be the rules around Medicare and making sure the people are getting the bang for the buck, it's not going to be possible for insurance companies to simply pass on those costs to Medicare recipients, because ultimately it's Uncle Sam that's paying for those services anyway.
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Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.
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I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.
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MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
