Alan Mulally Quotes

I've been through geopolitical and economic cycles.

Alan Mulally

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• These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
  • Thing
  • Poem
  • Grammys

• I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Family
  • Think
  • English

• I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Good
  • Love

• My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Dad
  • Understand

• I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Fast

• I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Ship

• My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • She
  • Texas

• I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Like
  • Director
  • Frustrated

• The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Together
  • Suffering

• That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Great
  • Getting Older

• Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Focus
  • Challenge

• The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Focus
  • Intelligence
  • Budget

• Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Father
  • Know
  • Enjoy

• The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Action

• I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Morning

• Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Live
  • Know
  • Party

• The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Idea
  • Fiction

• I lived in a town called New Canaan, which is just outside of Connecticut, where they are far too snobby to even mention celebrities. Many American towns are famous for things like, 'See the World's Largest Ball of String!' I think my town's would probably have to be 'Most Pretentious People'.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • People
  • World
  • American

• Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.

  

  John Gordon Sinclair
  • Life
  • Game

• In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Art
  • Ideas
  • Should

• My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

  

  Gemma Arterton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• I've been through geopolitical and economic cycles.

  

  Alan Mulally