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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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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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
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I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.
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Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
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I have a producer friend who despairs that I come across as rather frosty and never show the real me, and she might have a point.
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We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
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I became the messenger who had to be killed.
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Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness.
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After six years of working on low-budget independent films of the too-weird-to-watch variety, being asked by DreamWorks to come and play with the big boys, it was like finding an unicorn in your sock drawer.
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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.
