Larry Mullen, Jr. Quotes
I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
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We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
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Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
