Alan Mulally Quotes
I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.
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Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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I was very rebellious.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
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When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating. But it was brilliant for that. It is great for bonding with your baby. It is hard when no one else can feed her, but it was worth it for me. I loved it.
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There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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How could anybody think this man was sick? All right, so he had funny dreams. That was better than being plain mean and hateful, like about one quarter of the people she had ever met.
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals Neocons was telling the President of the United States...that if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a 'decisive surrender' to terrorism.
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
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Everybody touches the basketball on offense for us. We don't run plays for particular people. We expect everybody to score and contribute defensively.
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Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings.
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.
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Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage I have to get down to an 82-minute movie.
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I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.
