John Lasseter Quotes
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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I'm still very much Kate.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.
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Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.
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Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
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All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.
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For me, personally, I will always do G-rated films, which the world needs more of.
