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.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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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.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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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.
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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.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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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.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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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.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
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I'm tired of living in a police state.
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And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.
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The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I feel very blessed to have four brothers. My brothers always say, 'Oh, you know, we prepared you for the world of journalism. We prepared you for Arnold. We prepared you for everything.' And in a way they're right. Because you know, they take no prisoners. They were very tough.
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Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.
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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.
