John Lasseter Quotes
I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
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I think America is on the right track.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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And fathers, . . . listen to [your returned missionary sons], and connect with them in regular, focused conversation. Talk with them in depth about their feelings and desires. Pray with them and give them blessings as they face the important decisions in their future.
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I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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Restraining the thought-streams natural to the mind, ... the seer dwells in his own nature. Otherwise he is of the same form as the thought-streams.
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I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.
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I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
