John Lasseter Quotes
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I get homesick.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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I had originally written 'Pariah' as a feature, and we shot the first act as a short film, and then we used the short as a marketing tool to fundraise for the feature.
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I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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Unfortunately, I never saw Pele play. What I know of him is through my grandfather, my dad's dad, who used to talk to me and tell me about how he played.
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The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.
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The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
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I would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time.
