John Lasseter Quotes
You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.
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In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
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But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
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My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
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Thanksgiving is the most complicated meal you can think of. Every night, dinner is just pasta. It's just different shapes of pasta.
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'There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.'
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There is one live track on the album, 'Einsamaller,' and that had a conductor - Eyvind Kang.
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The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment.
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You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'
