Edwin Catmull Quotes
What interests me is the number of people who believe that they have the ability to drive the train and who think that this is the power position—that driving the train is the way to shape their companies’ futures. The truth is, it’s not. Driving the train doesn’t set its course. The real job is laying the track.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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I play well with everybody.
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My drumming is always an experiment.
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I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
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Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
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Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
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There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.
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Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
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In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.
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I totally have the ability to laugh at myself. I don't think one should take oneself seriously, ever. As long as you are not hurting my sentiments by revealing personal details or talking badly about my family, I'm absolutely fine.
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It's hard to give your song away. They're like your kids.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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If you give people peanuts, you get monkeys. So if you want good people that are highly qualified, make the amount of money available for them to go out and do the job.
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We believe we need to stimulate this economy.
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What interests me is the number of people who believe that they have the ability to drive the train and who think that this is the power position—that driving the train is the way to shape their companies’ futures. The truth is, it’s not. Driving the train doesn’t set its course. The real job is laying the track.
