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.

Larry Wilmore

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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?

Garry Shandling
- Together
- Fire
- Athlete
I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

Nadine Velazquez
- Family
- College
- Proud
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.

Balaji Srinivasan
- Experience
- Science
- Know
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.

Patrick Lencioni
- Time
- Success
- Learning
I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

Warren Kole
- Up
- Problem
- Proud
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

Yehuda Amichai
- Reason
- Poet
- Himself