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.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• 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.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Trying
  • Thoughts
  • Enjoy

• I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • America
  • Know

• Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Women
  • Home
  • Reason

• I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Attention
  • Enjoy
  • Pay

• 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.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Destiny

• The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
  • Play
  • First

• '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.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Character
  • Success

• In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Never
  • Boxing

• 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.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Mistake
  • Try
  • Blame

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Long
  • Live
  • Dance

• 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.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Focus
  • Goals
  • Economy

• 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.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Different
  • Politics
  • Ethics

• Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Power
  • Stealing
  • Few

• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Great
  • Copy

• 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.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Energy
  • Food

• It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Religious

• Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Person
  • Stage
  • Performer

• It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Men
  • May
  • True

• Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Dream
  • Hurt
  • Shining

• I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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