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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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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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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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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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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If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
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Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy.
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One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.
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I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny.
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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.
