John Lasseter Quotes

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

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• Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Chess

• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Humble
  • Ride
  • Beginnings

• I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

  

  Kaki King
  • Music
  • Color
  • Red

• A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Reading
  • Kitchen

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Political
  • Myself
  • Deep

• As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Face
  • Status Quo

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Long
  • Live
  • Family

• My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Career
  • Playing
  • Go

• We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Time
  • Joy

• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Think
  • Choices
  • Big

• So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Women
  • Love
  • Fall

• I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Violence

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Hate
  • Decision
  • Confused

• As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Great
  • Think
  • Inspire

• Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • College

• One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.

  

  David Miliband
  • Time
  • School
  • Health

• If we turn against each other based on divisions of race or religion. I-i-i-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if we fall for, you know, a bunch of okie-doke, just because, you know it-it-it. You know, it-it-it-it-it-it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative, then we're not going to build on the progress we started.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Funny
  • Fall
  • Progress

• I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Good
  • Great
  • Alone