John Lasseter Quotes
'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
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The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.
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With confidence we testify that the Atonement of Jesus Christ has anticipated and, in the end, will compensate all deprivation and loss for those who turn to Him. No one is predestined to receive less than all that the Father has for His children.
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'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
