John Lasseter Quotes

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

John Lasseter

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• If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Brother
  • Door
  • Successful

• Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Time
  • Money
  • Kids

• I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!

  

  Zac Efron
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Club

• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Hall

• If you look at a copy of EO 11110, you will find that it does not order the issuance of Silver Certificates. It orders an amendment to EO 10289... Those functions did not include the power to issue Silver Certificates.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Power
  • Find
  • Look

• I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Song

• Real estate investing is unique in that it's almost as much a career or a way of life as it is a form of investing. Indeed, the fact that real estate is involves so much sweat equity makes it unique among other investments.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Life
  • Real
  • Career

• When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Men

• It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, 'I' do not hit, 'it' hits all by itself.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • May

• I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7.

  

  Labrinth LSD

• Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Power

• And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Happy

• I know people don't think I work.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • People
  • Work

• Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.

  

  Anthony Atala
  • Different

• I did have my beginnings in doo-wop music; I had a group called the Tokens in Brooklyn. They went on, of course, to do 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' and a lot of other great things. I went on as a soloist. But I still love doo-wop music.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Great
  • Music
  • Lion

• The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.

  

  Alex Epstein
  • Government
  • Permission
  • Commerce

• Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

  

  Peter Mullan
  • People
  • Society
  • Interesting

• O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Husband
  • Traitor
  • Revolt

• I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Prayer

• In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

  

  John Lasseter