Larry Mullen, Jr. Quotes

The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.

Larry Mullen, Jr. U2

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• I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Guy
  • Feeling

• Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Best
  • Years
  • Review

• I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Long
  • Art
  • Job

• I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Different
  • Guy
  • Kind

• The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • Dream

• What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Help
  • Freedom
  • Words

• As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Long
  • Love
  • Best

• There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Veteran
  • Veterans

• I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Good
  • Work
  • Live

• Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?

  

  Sam Weller
  • May
  • Age
  • Deep

• People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • People
  • Attention
  • Internet

• I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Development
  • Economic

• I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Dreamer
  • Rising
  • Pisces

• I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Doing

• It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • You
  • Vote
  • Republican

• There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.

  

  Victor Mature
  • You
  • Know
  • Said

• That's the person I plan on being for a very long time: someone who stands up, someone who is an advocate for people, [even if it's for] something that some people think is only hair. I think it's more than just that. I want to be a spokesperson for self-love and for diversity.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Ability
  • Gift
  • Songwriting

• It was palpable, all that wanting: Mother wanting something more, Dad wanting something more, everyone wanting something more. This wasn't going to do for us fifties girls; we were going to have to change the equation even if it meant . . . abstaining from motherhood, because clearly that was where Mother got caught.

  

  Anne Fleming
  • More
  • Motherhood
  • Wanting

• The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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  • Musician
  • Roles