Larry Wilmore Quotes
I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.
Quotes to Explore
-
My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
-
I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
-
Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.
-
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
-
Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
-
I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
-
I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
-
I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
-
My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
-
I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
-
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
-
Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
-
I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
-
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
-
We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
-
I have always liked to live my life in a quiet and peaceful manner. I used to lead my life that way. But the rise in social media has certainly affected me. Now I am always noticed.
-
I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
-
A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.
-
God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.
-
I don't think we're metalcore. To me, metalcore is more like hardcore-influenced metal, with lots of breakdowns. I think we're a lot more diverse sounding than that.
-
I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.
