Pete Docter Quotes
I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
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There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
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I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
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As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.
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I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal.
