Alan Mulally Quotes
This working together is just so important: you're either working together, or you're not working together.
Quotes to Explore
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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I'm just trying to create characters and tell stories.
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My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.
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We believe that, ultimately, the most important learning occurs in the context of our day-to-day life, the aspirations we pursue, the challenges we face, and the responses we bring forth.
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An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.
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The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.
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This working together is just so important: you're either working together, or you're not working together.
