John Lasseter Quotes
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
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On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
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When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.
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Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.
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Music is like the soul of the planet.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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I haven't checked this out yet, but one of our guys told me we have a counselor within 45 minutes to an hour of most small businesses in this country. That's really powerful. I call it our bone structure.
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An individual can have a point of view. He is entitled to that.
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My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name.
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When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, and he's with Jack and a lot of my brothers and sisters and my parents.' So it made it very easy to get through the day thinking he was OK.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.
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I'm a big Disneyland nut.
