John Lasseter Quotes
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
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I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a long time. She's funny and created an image for herself that was non-sexualized but was really interesting and really cool and really kind of avant-garde in a lot of ways.
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To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.
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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
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Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.
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People always say 'Don't you support the troops?' But the troops are an entity that just follows orders. It's not about individuals or people. So when I say 'I don't support the troops', I'm saying I don't support the bankers and politicians who are making them do what they do.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called Negroes. This come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.
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Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
