Larry Wilmore Quotes

#1. You've never been in a scrape yet but what it came about by accident. The thing is, no one else has these accidents.

Georgette Heyer

#2. I love writing family stories.

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#3. The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them,

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#4. Don't Tase Me Bro!
If I'm a cop, and I'm a brotha, and they let me have a taser? Sorry bro, I'm tasing you.

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#5. Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.

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#6. Every evening brings us nearer God.

Martin Luther

#7. I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from the guilt-ridden, neurotic type of [ - ] I have more in common with the Jewish brand of comedy.

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#8. Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

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#9. You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.

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#10. I'm a big stupid history nerd.

Emilie Autumn

#11. When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

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#12. Reality is mind-made.

Deepak Chopra

#13. I've always been sort of entrepreneurial ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.

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#14. Without the cops or the feds, the two of them were on their own. And Jack had no idea what they were up against. All he knew was that he now had the assumed future president's daughter's life in his hands.

B. J. Daniels

#15. We, Catholics, share many of the moral guidelines of Mormons, the difference is you guys take it seriously. When the church says something we don't agree with we say, "Oh don't be so crazy." We just laugh it off.

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#16. In a country where people are not reading and thinking much, the sun is already set!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.

Roger Clemens

#18. I don't care if my opinion falls on the right or the left. I'm more of what I call a passionate centrist. I just believe what I believe. I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

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#19. Because it wasn't my body that was most invested in this encounter. It was most definitely my heart. Only by the time this was over, I knew it wouldn't be mine anymore. I

Sloane Kennedy

#20. "Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You're either being honest or you're not.

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#21. Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#22. I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.

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#23. When I was a kid, there was kind of a given that there were some really bad, racist police out there. That's just what America was like when I was a kid.

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#24. It was tough when people would say, "Aren't you so excited?" about the new show and I couldn't really say, "Yes, well, I'm going through a divorce right now, too."

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#25. I do believe that the Mormon Church is at kind of an awakening, in two different ways: More people are becoming aware of it, and it's becoming a force to be reckoned with. There's a lot of Mormon converts globally.

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#26. I don't want to slam somebody else's religion. I mean as a Catholic, we're basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

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#27. It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

Edith Pearlman

#28. Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

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#29. I started as a standup comic and an actor.

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#30. I'm not asking for your forgiveness. I have done no wrong according to my kind. I never meant to turn you. I just wanted to have a little fun with you before they took you away.

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