John Lasseter Quotes

Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

John Lasseter

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• This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Work
  • She
  • Bad

• The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Bad
  • Party
  • Government

• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Future
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Things
  • Competitive
  • Poker

• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Care

• The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.

  

  Larry David
  • Change
  • See
  • Pants

• 'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Friend
  • Loved
  • Chaos

• Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Real
  • Look
  • Nothing

• I open the debate… The 2nd verse of New Slaves is the best rap verse of all time….meaning … OF ALL TIME IN THE HISTORY OF RAP MUSIC, PERIOD

  

  Kanye West
  • Time
  • Music
  • History

• 'Noon sits at the Master's right hand, Dawn at his left. Dusk stands behind, in the shadows. Yet sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Light
  • Hand

• When I consider others I can easily believe that their bodies express their personalities and that the two are inseparable. But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I, that I inhabit it like a house, and that my face is a mask which, with or without my consent, conceals my real nature from others.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Nature

• I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution, it will be proper to take a view of the ends to be served by it. These were, - first, to protect the people against their rulers, secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led.

  

  James Madison
  • People
  • Judge

• I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of 'humility.' This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Purpose

• Working with Justin Bieber, I learned that he can literally do any genre - he's a chameleon. His voice is so flexible that he's not locked in to one genre, and it just shows the world that he can really sing anything.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • World

• Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Cancer
  • Capricorn

• Taylor was named after James Taylor and claims that she knows all the James Taylor songs, and I'm a huge fan of James Taylor and know all his songs, too. My dad told me that if I ever met Taylor Swift, I had to tell her that I know every James Taylor song. We started naming albums, and we were both shouting them out.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • She
  • Song
  • Dad

• I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

  

  Amos Lee
  • Life

• Vietnamese food has probably been saved from the mass market because most people never master the sauces and condiments that must be added to the food, at the table, for its glories to become apparent. It's too much trouble, and a lot of people don't like asking for help, especially if the interaction involves some linguistic awkwardness.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • People
  • Help
  • Food

• I can always remember standing up to the baddest girls in my elementary school. Wherever I went, there was always a mean girl, and that girl would always hate me because I wouldn’t bow down.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• I guess I am in handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm... average?

  

  Bobby Lee
  • World
  • Guy
  • Mountain

• I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.

  

  Richard Masur
  • Survivor
  • Handful

• Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

  

  John Lasseter