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.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Government
  • German

• Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Link

• I was very rebellious.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Very
  • Rebellious

• I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• Those who live are those who fight.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Those

• In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Practice
  • Teacher

• 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!

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • Job
  • Nice

• Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Woman
  • Child
  • Birth

• Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Failure
  • Means
  • Away

• It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Good
  • God
  • Colors

• 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.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Great
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Real

• What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • She
  • Funny

• An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

  

  Jack Vance

• 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.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War

• I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Song

• Nec facile invenias multis in milibus unum,virtutem pretium qui putet esse sui.ipse decor, recte facti si praemia desint,non movet, et gratis paenitet esse probum.nil nisi quod prodest carum est.

  

  Ovid

• From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

  

  Denis Diderot

• When some people rejoin with “All Lives Matter” they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue. It is true that all lives matter, but it is equally true that not all lives are understood to matter which is precisely why it is most important to name the lives that have not mattered, and are struggling to matter in the way they deserve.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Problem
  • Deserve
  • Understood

• 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.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Movie

• I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Bird