Alan Mulally Quotes
The purpose of business is to make a reasonable return by making products and services that people want and value. If you are not, you are wasting resources.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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Actors don't have real value.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
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People ask me what I would have done if it wasn't for basketball. I can never give a good story because I honestly don't know. I had no other options.
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I believe the entertainment industry cannot portray on film people gunned down in cold blood, in living color, and not have it affect the attitudes and thoughts of some of the people who see it... I believe that the desensitizing effect of such media abuses on the hearts and souls of those who are exposed to them results in a partial fulfillment of the Savior's statement that 'because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold'.
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The purpose of business is to make a reasonable return by making products and services that people want and value. If you are not, you are wasting resources.
