Alan Mulally Quotes
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
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Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.
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Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
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Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
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Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.
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I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
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I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.
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We were doing press for this movie that my friends and I made for $5,000 called 'Brothers Justice,' that I also wrote and directed. And during the press of that, people kept saying, 'What's next, what's next?' And my best friend Nate and I - Nate produced it - we kept saying, 'Oh, we're gonna do a car-chase movie next.'
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I don't go out drinking and stuff like that. My friends say 'Just have one drink, JD.' I say 'What's the point?' I'll go to a club and have a Red Bull, get my buzz. And the next day I feel cool. It's discipline, not just with drinking but a lot of things in life. You've just got to look at the bigger picture.
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When they ask who is your biggest influence, I always say Pharrell: whether it is music or fashion, I'm a big fan.
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I think my first-ever car was a Chevrolet, 1960.
