Nico Santos (Nico Wellenbrink) Quotes

It's really mind-boggling to me when I think about where I started and where I am now. It's kind of insane.

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• Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.

  

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• I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

  

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• The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

  

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• Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.

  

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• I really am a cockeyed optimist.

  

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• In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

  

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• My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

  

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• I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

  

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• I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.

  

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• I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.

  

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• Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

  

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• But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

  

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• I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.

  

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• Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.

  

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• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

  

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• It's really mind-boggling to me when I think about where I started and where I am now. It's kind of insane.

  

  Nico Santos
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