John Lasseter Quotes
I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
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My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
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I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.
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I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.
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I love my life. I love my work. I love my training. It's all due to my love for life, my love for people. I'm very happy to be alive.
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Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
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When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let it happen. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always works.
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The less explaining you do the less people speculate.
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Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."
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I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!'
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I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.
