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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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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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
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I fell in love with L.A. To me, it is the most quintessentially American city.
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Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.
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You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
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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.
