John Lasseter Quotes
Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
Quotes to Explore
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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Ain't no problem with me and Kevin Gates; everybody just trippin'.
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The West is the fitting tomb for all the sorrow and the sighing, all the errors and the follies of the Past: for all its withered Hopes and all its buried Loves! From the East comes new strength, new ambition, new Hope, new Life, new Love! Look Eastward! Aye, look Eastward!'
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The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.
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As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.
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And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.
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Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
