Edwin Catmull Quotes
If you don’t try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
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I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
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Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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And is there care in Heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?
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Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
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The weight and concentration of the poems fall upon things (and those great things, animals and people), in their tough, laconic, un-get-pastable plainness: they have kept the stolid and dangerous inertia of the objects of the sagas-the sword that snaps, the man looking at his lopped-off leg and saying, 'That was a good stroke.'
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If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there may be good reason for you to be fearful too.
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Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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If you don’t try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
