John Lasseter Quotes
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.
