John Lasseter Quotes

I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

John Lasseter

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• All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Emotional

• Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Faith
  • Stop

• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Lost
  • Winning
  • Tennis

• Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Fun
  • Day
  • Dance

• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Today
  • Free
  • Choices

• We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • People
  • Stage
  • Lucky

• We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Strength
  • Temptation

• All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Like

• Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Great
  • Three

• Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • God
  • Live
  • Marriage

• I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.

  

  Xavi
  • Know
  • Football
  • Living

• I do have too many eight-inch heels which I never get to wear.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Never
  • Wear
  • Heels

• I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Play
  • Movies
  • Guitar

• The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • God
  • Long
  • Respect

• I am satisfied it has strengthened my hand tremendously. Nobody but a fool would disregard the kind of result we witnessed today.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Today
  • Hand
  • Fool

• Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Learning

• I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with … or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Character

• Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.

  

  Clive James
  • Time
  • Mind
  • House

• The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Process
  • Policy
  • One Thing

• I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.

  

  Douglas Tompkins
  • Hurt

• I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fear

• We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

  

  Aristotle
  • Power
  • Masters
  • Habits

• Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Intellect

• I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

  

  John Lasseter