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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I truly believe that I make my path and I set my course, and where I land, at the end of the day, or the end of my career, [is] because of me. Of course, you get help along the way, and cosigns and management and opportunities and things like that but overall, the ball is in your court basically.
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There's a certain amount of pressure that comes from playing real people. It's a pressure to deliver something fair and right to the real person and any living relatives. But generally, it's a joy, as you get to target your interest on a particular era.
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The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.
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The highest qualities of character... must be earned.
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There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
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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.
