Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.
Larry WilmoreYou could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.
Larry WilmoreMy basic political philosophy is, I ain't mad at that. Which basically means I don't have to have a strong opinion about everything. I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes I'm just not mad at it. Like, What do you think about gay marriage? I ain't mad at you, you're gay and you're married: I ain't mad at you, go do it.
Larry WilmoreI try to impart this when people say they want to be a writer and they want to go into show biz. I say, "Well, have you taken any courses? You can't just have a passion for it; you have to prepare yourself for a life of it."
Larry WilmoreA lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.
Larry WilmoreIt seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that's the way it feels sometimes in the layman's world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that's proven wrong because there's something else.
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