Michael Mullen Quotes

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

Michael Mullen

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• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Future
  • Risk

• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Career
  • City
  • Now

• But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Healthy
  • Clear
  • Inequality

• For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • American
  • Energy

• Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.

  

  James Nesbitt

• Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities - not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.

  

  Jamshyd Godrej
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.

  

  Laurence Fishburne

• I went seven years between 2002 and 2009 without winning. Then I did win in '09.

  

  Matt Kuchar
  • Winning

• Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

  

  Brian Kernighan
  • Different

• I am really fortunate to have parents who supported my plan to become an actress when I was a little kid. And then there was my grandma. She was the best. She was always there and ready to drive me to all my plays and stuff.

  

  Keiko Agena
  • She
  • Parents
  • Grandma

• Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

  

  Bruce Barton
  • Home
  • Breakfast

• My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive, you really care what people think, you have a low threshold for criticism.

  

  Matthew Weiner
  • People
  • She
  • High

• It's a thankless job for police officers, period, but specifically for men and women of color protecting and serving.

  

  John David Washington
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.

  

  Adrienne Barbeau
  • Thinking
  • Roles
  • Variety

• Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then once they started selling, people said my works were very detailed. They may have represented something Japanese to them.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • May

• A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Social
  • Evolution

• Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.

  

  William Gibson
  • Thinking
  • Firsts
  • Finals

• I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Soul

• The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

  

  Michael Mullen
  • Thinking
  • Existentialism
  • Cyber