Larry Wilmore Quotes

There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing.

Larry Wilmore

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Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, that's built around the contrasting sounds of the individual numbers in it.

Jennifer Egan

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In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.

John Clayton

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Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

Stefano Pessina

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Being a woman is really crap.

Siobhan Fahey

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Done correctly, everyone from individual speakers to large organizations can inspire citizens and customers to spread a message using their own social channels, and in so doing, inspire countless supporters to build their reputation, profits and social impact.

Simon Mainwaring

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The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

Tony Dungy

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I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry, and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make from moment to moment in our lives, and in our frenzy, as something that's as out there as alien life.

Tracy K. Smith

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I'm on the Armed Services Committee, which gives me the opportunity to get involved on some of these international issues. My focus is, as you know, on the economic issues and budget issues.

Rob Portman

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Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.

Robin Williams

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Music has given me a fantastic lifestyle.

Roisin Murphy

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I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience.

Mira Nair

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Here is what I am not going to do: I am not going to go to a restaurant, take pictures of my food, download them, and call that a blog. That is beyond the pale. The Internet is such a bazaar of self-indulgences that I don't know why that particular one should bug me so much. But it really does.

Jonathan Dee

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