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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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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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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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.
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Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.
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I've talked to people who say that their music and their creative work is a much needed and appreciated escape, where they don't have to think about the state of the world; they're not even thinking about themselves so much. They're not trying to express their own experiences of that day or relationship strife or anything.
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My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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.
