Alan Mulally Quotes
Some people believe the U.S. can't compete in the design and manufacture of sophisticated products. I think we absolutely can if we pull together. We have shown that we can do that in commercial airplanes, and we can absolutely prove that we can do that in automobiles.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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Growing up my dad was like 'Zach, you have a great last name: Galifianakis... Galifianakis... Begins with a 'gal', ends with a 'kiss''... I'm like 'That's great, Dad. Can we get it changed to 'Galifiana-fuck' please?'
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A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.
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Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.
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All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.
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Some people believe the U.S. can't compete in the design and manufacture of sophisticated products. I think we absolutely can if we pull together. We have shown that we can do that in commercial airplanes, and we can absolutely prove that we can do that in automobiles.
