John Lasseter Quotes
The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.
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I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
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I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.
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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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I think insecurity does drive people. I know it's what drove me to push for the work I've got.
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The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.
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I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.
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The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'
