Top 100 Quotes About Mullen
#1. Jordan Mullen is looking at me like I'm something he wants to scrape off his shoe and right then my heart breaks, but somehow beats on.
Vikki Wakefield
#2. Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Michael Mullen
#3. America- often called the land of milk and honey- tends to be sweeter, more generous to those who don't rock the boat.
Sarah Mullen
Erin Passons
#4. You are so much more than I could have ever wished for. ~ Cate Mullen
Chris Kuhn
#5. I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.
Alain Vigneault
#6. The top threat that gets very little focus from Washington these days is what Adm. Mike Mullen identified as the biggest threat to the U.S.: the American debt.
Mark Sanford
#7. If you listen closely to the voices of our veterans, you understand that yes, they all returned from war changed, but what never changed is this: They never forgot your generosity. They never forgot the power of opportunity. They never forgot the American dream.
Michael Mullen
#8. We are vulnerable in the military and in our governments, but I think we're most vulnerable to cyber attacks commercially. This challenge is going to significantly increase. It's not going to go away.
Michael Mullen
#9. 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.
#10. There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#11. And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, and have done that, I think it would have been worthwhile.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#13. As a Naval officer, I've been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere would like to raise their children to a higher standard of living in a peaceful environment. That's a universal goal for families.
Michael Mullen
#14. Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.
Thomas Mullen
#15. I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new.
Rodney Mullen
#16. You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.
Rodney Mullen
#17. Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.
Laura Mullen
#18. The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.
Laura Mullen
#19. I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different - and better - possible. We really need to squarely face the issue of child abuse in America, and to look at our perversity, our illness.
Laura Mullen
#20. And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure of some apparent or usual protections, and a need to re-examine "identity" in the light of an acknowledgement of our entanglements and interdependence.
Laura Mullen
#21. Has your life ever been so messed up that you wondered how you would survive another day?
Alisa Mullen
#22. I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.
Michael Mullen
#23. If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerges as something to examine very carefully.
Laura Mullen
#25. Despite all of the social advances in women's rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern men still want a woman that they can take care of at home.
Shannon Mullen
#26. The greater your command of brand loyalty, the less you must worry about price sensitivity and competitive promotions-and the less you must pay for marketing.
Jim Mullen
#27. I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.
Rodney Mullen
#28. I guess all the time I spend on social media has made me believe that love exists above the surface, that it's supposed to be light all of the time.
Shannon Mullen
#29. I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.
Michael Mullen
#30. Admitting how ill we are, how deep the damage goes, how constantly the abuse cycle is repeated and how horribly we have failed those who most deserve our care and protection.
Laura Mullen
#32. People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that's important. Everything else is irrelevant.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#33. Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.
Rodney Mullen
#35. The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#36. The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.
Rodney Mullen
#37. Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?
Laura Mullen
#38. "Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.
Laura Mullen
#39. Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.
Michael Mullen
#40. The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.
Michael Mullen
#42. It is through fiction that we learn not to believe everything we read in print.
Ann Mullen
#43. Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground.
Rodney Mullen
#44. Due to their short bloom time, Sakura blossoms are a metaphor for life itself: beautiful yet fleeting. You'll realize when you're as old as me to hang on to the good times because they won't last forever.
Shannon Mullen
#45. Because here was what none of them wanted to admit, Leo thought, the thing they were simply too blind or angry or spoiled to realize: this life was the best it could possibly be.
Thomas Mullen
#46. The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#47. Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.
Michael Mullen
#48. I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it's even harder to recognize the truth when it's buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like.
Shannon Mullen
#49. Her voice is raw. She sings from the deepest cracks of her heart and her soul. When she closes her eyes, I know she has lost herself in the music. - Unrequited
Alisa Mullen
#50. When you look at a strong brand, you see a promise.
Jim Mullen
#51. There isn't a fight that I'm in that I'm not asking the question, 'What could we have done to avoid this?' Or, 'What can we do to avoid this in the future in terms of the kinds of things that we see?'
Michael Mullen
#53. To the Cold War veterans here, know that your steadfast efforts preserved a delicate balance, and, because of you, the global war that many feared never came to pass. We are thankful for you, as we are for all the veterans here with us.
Michael Mullen
#54. Star Wars film is breaking all previous box office records. (Why might we want to revisit those characters, that narrative, those jokes and tropes again, in this way, right now? I wonder what it will turn out to reveal about the economics and politics of this moment.)
Laura Mullen
#55. In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are blurred). I'm very interested in "repetition and revision" (to use Suzan Lori-Parks's phrase) and in the culture's desire to loop or repeat.
Laura Mullen
#56. I think that is a noble goal that all of us should seek, to end wars and prevent wars as much as possible.
Michael Mullen
#57. We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the price of a barrel of oil is going to be controlled by the Middle East for the next 10, 20, 30 years for sure.
Michael Mullen
#58. I've been pretty clear about saying that I think that the No. 1 threat to our national security is our debt. And we've got to get our arms around that and head it in another - head it in the right direction - that we have to pay our fair share of this.
Michael Mullen
#59. Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#60. Titanic got 14 nominations one per lifeboat.
Jim Mullen
#61. Maybe love's more than the daily comforts: more than morning coffees and flowers and notes in my lunch bag and holding hands while watching the stars. It's about never giving up, believing in each other, and supporting each other through the good and the bad.
Shannon Mullen
#62. Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#64. Her eyes remind me of the Pacific: Raging. Fearless. Restless.
Shannon Mullen
#65. Sometimes I wish I could sneak a peek into that mind of yours and see what you're thinking. Especially when you smile at me like that. ~ Oliver Sand
Chris Kuhn
#67. If I die tomorrow, you aren't allowed to say my life was cut short at age 25. I did more in those years than most people will ever do.
Alisa Mullen
#68. I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#69. I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.
Laura Mullen
#70. When I encountered "The Lady of Shallot" (to take a "for instance" allusion from the many in the book, this one from the "Etiology" section) it was still considered a "great poem." What does that poem - or rather a particular presentation of that poem (hey, admire this!) - do to a young woman?
Laura Mullen
#71. I would like America to remember those who have served and those that we've lost and their families.
Michael Mullen
#72. Wherever something is "pinned down" there's a little hole - at least one - more likely many.
Laura Mullen
#73. Mom asked Dad "where is Mickey?" Dad said that the hogs are him, that's when the pot of beans went flying through the air. Uncle Leroy said, "I think I'll go back home now.
Mickey R. Mullen
#74. Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.
Michael Mullen
#75. I'm a Vietnam veteran. I was here when there was no public support, not just for the effort in Vietnam, for the mission in Vietnam, but for our men and women in uniform.
Michael Mullen
#76. I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.
Rodney Mullen
#77. Perhaps the reason why my life is so monumentally messed up is because I am an active participant.
Alisa Mullen
#79. Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.
Thomas Mullen
#80. The west coast is a mecca for wild hearts, wild minds, wild spirits and I'm a WMD - I've got so much energy I'm about to explode.
Shannon Mullen
#81. That's what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.
Shannon Mullen
#82. In Frankenstein there is a transfer first of life into death (in the creation and animation of the monster), and then of death into life, as the monster takes his revenge on the father who gave him life but withheld recognition.
Laura Mullen
#83. The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease, because decaying matter, as the fireman said of fire (cited in the book's final piece, "Torch Song") "ain't got no rules on it."
Laura Mullen
#85. Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
Tom Mullen
#86. Maybe the truth doesn't exist if you look the other way.
Shannon Mullen
#87. Of course her dumb Lab's going to do whatever it takes to retrieve the ball. What he craves more than freedom is companionship.
Shannon Mullen
#88. In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.
Michael Mullen
#90. Unfortunately, as far as the music is concerned, what defines relevance is whether you are on the radio or whether you are on the cover of a magazine or whether you're winning MTV awards, and so on and so forth.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#92. Somehow I find the energy to continue the run. Part of the high that comes after finishing a long run is overcoming the wall, that point when your body crashes but your mind keeps moving you forward.
Shannon Mullen
#93. It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#94. The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.
Harryette Mullen
#95. The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.
Michael Mullen
#96. You are my favorite thing to do. ~ Oliver Sand
Chris Kuhn
#97. From a very strategic level, I believe the military is part of the solution to better outcomes around the world, but at a higher level, it's really about economies.
Michael Mullen
#98. I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.
Thomas Mullen
#99. Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.
Rodney Mullen
#100. I could so totally rock the homeless scene if I didn't have a baby growing inside me.
Alisa Mullen
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