Larry Mullen, Jr. Quotes
I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
-
The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
-
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
-
I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
-
I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
-
Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
-
I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
-
A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
-
I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
-
I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
-
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
-
People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
-
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
-
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
-
Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
-
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
-
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-
Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
-
You don’t go to a show because you think someone in the band is hot.
-
But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
-
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
-
People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
-
I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
