Larry Mullen, Jr. Quotes
Companies like Spotify, the new Apple service, and all the others are really going to have to pay artists more. And I think it's a matter of time; I think a lot of these companies and the individuals that are involved in them realize that as well. They know that artists are not getting what they should be getting.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.
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I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
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There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
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Culture follows power.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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I watched a little girl cover her face up and leave her hands in front of her mouth. I saw that girl after surgery, and she was smiling... that's a great source of satisfaction.
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You see all these movies of white men saving the world all the time.
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I was really fat in school.
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Companies like Spotify, the new Apple service, and all the others are really going to have to pay artists more. And I think it's a matter of time; I think a lot of these companies and the individuals that are involved in them realize that as well. They know that artists are not getting what they should be getting.
