John Lasseter Quotes
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I believed I was invincible.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.
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I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It's really an uplifting style of art that combines visuals and music in very dreamlike ways.
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It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to meet. When I put 'Elected' out, it was definitely a satire ... 'Alice Cooper for President' ... when everybody realized I was running against Nixon, you known, even on a joke level, I think I got a lot of write-in votes.
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What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.
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Even when I was with Arista records, which was the freest part of my career, you still have to run a lot of stuff by committee whether it's a budget, or the album artwork, or how may songs you get to record. This was total freedom. We had nobody to answer to. We didn't have to get anything approved.
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I have motor oil running through my veins.
