Larry Mullen, Jr. Quotes

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

Larry Mullen, Jr. U2

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• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Power
  • You
  • Nothing

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Love
  • Job
  • Best

• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Things
  • Changes
  • Impact

• Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Success
  • Health
  • Grow

• Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Live
  • Nation
  • Ticket

• I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Mind
  • Personality

• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Good
  • Party

• You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Teenager

• Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Kind
  • Fit
  • Diet

• It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Love
  • Job

• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Game
  • Teaching
  • Coaching

• Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Different
  • Effort
  • Stand

• The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Water
  • Sound

• Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then form your opinion of my worth to your team. I assure you that I am delighted to be a Pirate and that I will do my best to bring another pennant to the Smoky City.

  

  Vic Willis
  • Believe
  • Team
  • Action

• Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.

  

  Alice Herz-Sommer
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Old

• Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show.

  

  David Blunkett
  • People
  • Business
  • Song

• Everything felt more personal this time. I go back to songs we've done in the past and there's just more maturity, depth, intelligence on these. They just feel more grown-up.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Songs
  • Consumption
  • Discard

• When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Drummer

• It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Songs
  • Drummer
  • Chicks