John Lasseter Quotes
When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.
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At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery, but a little modesty about it might keep the heat off of us. I can't stand the people who say things like, 'We built this country!' You built nothing. I think the railroads were pretty much up by 1980.
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It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.
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When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
