Alan Mulally Quotes
The most important thing is the fact we have created this successful and sustainable Ford Motor Co. worldwide. I have no regrets.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.
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As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
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The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.
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Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.
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The most important thing is the fact we have created this successful and sustainable Ford Motor Co. worldwide. I have no regrets.
