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.
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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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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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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 always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
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And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.
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We have a God who loves us. We are in the palm of his hand. He doesn't leave us, and He doesn't forsake us.
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I like seeing women defined by what they do and what they're passionate about rather than the men that they're in love with or associated with. That's always more important to me, as a female.
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I think confidence is the sexiest thing to have.
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The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.
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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.
