Larry Wilmore Quotes
It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.
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There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
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There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
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As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire.
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It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.
