Edwin Catmull Quotes
You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.
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We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.
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We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.
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You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
