Edwin Catmull Quotes
Always try to hire people who are smarter than you. Always take a chance on better, even if it seems like a potential threat.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
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Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
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I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom...I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the oracles of God continually.
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You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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Always try to hire people who are smarter than you. Always take a chance on better, even if it seems like a potential threat.
