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Michael Mullen Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: October 4, 1946

Topics

Failure Story You Look Teach Way

One of the first jokes I wrote was this nail salon bit that ended up blowing up on YouTube. That's kind of what propelled me into standup.

Anjelah Johnson

Me Kind YouTube First Jokes Up

By far, the most disabling thing in my life is the physical environment. It dictates what I can and can't do every day.

Stella Young

Life Day My Life Every Day I Can

If you want to beat the No. 1 player in the world, you have to give everything.

Stan Wawrinka

World You Want Everything Beat Give

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

Rodney Carrington

Thought Comedy Anything If I Could

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

Russell Banks

Vision Political Hill First Movement

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Mira Nair

Mirror Politics People Help Look

Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.

Chris Rock

Law Bad Said Say Movies Act

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

Bruce Springsteen

Creative You Artist Person Escape

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

Bryan Ferry

Better Feel You Feelings Kind Even

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

Alison Jackson

Perception You Own Your Interested

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

Sylvia Earle

I Am Grow Grow Up Hurry Up Am

For me, it's just being wiser, finding my opportunities, and really fighting a smart fight.

Tyron Woodley

Fight Smart Me Opportunities Finding