Edwin Catmull Quotes
Good leadership can help creative people stay on the path to excellence no matter what business they’re in.
Quotes to Explore
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
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The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
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When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
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I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
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I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.
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I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.
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Good leadership can help creative people stay on the path to excellence no matter what business they’re in.
