Larry Mullen, Jr. Quotes
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I love my sleep.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.
