Pete Docter Quotes
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for you, but it's memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there's a lot of blood and gore involved.
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Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.
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I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.
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Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.
