John Lasseter Quotes
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.
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Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
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I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
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The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
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To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
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Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
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I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.
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As a parent myself, I can appreciate the MPAA and what they're supposed to do, but what happens with NC-17 is that the MPAA is basically taking away the rights of parents. They're basically telling me that I can't show my kids this movie if I decide they can see it.
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In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees.
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The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
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Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.
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I love working for a company full of geeks.
