John Lasseter Quotes
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
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Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.
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The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.
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My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
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Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
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Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
Elliott Erwitt -
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
