Alan Mulally Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.
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In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski.
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Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'
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A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.
