Edwin Catmull Quotes

Engaging with exceptionally hard problems forces us to think differently.

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• You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Children
  • Guy
  • Learn

• I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Like
  • Things
  • Characters

• I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Time
  • Society
  • Anniversary

• The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Future
  • Hand
  • Security

• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • Always
  • Start

• There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

  

  Harold Prince
  • College
  • Question
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • World
  • Taxes

• There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Heart
  • True

• Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Bless

• All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • Past
  • Creativity

• It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Live
  • Want
  • Know

• You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Art
  • Change
  • Growth

• I have parents and family who will never allow me not to be grounded. If I thought for a second that I could possibly lift off the ground, I have a thousand people who will grab my ankles.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Family
  • Parents

• A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Family
  • Own
  • Superstitions

• Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Music
  • Like

• I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Dog

• We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Black
  • Kind
  • Million

• It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Myself
  • Forward
  • Confident

• I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Way

• I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.

  

  Rebecca Romijn
  • Attention
  • Swimming
  • Developed

• It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Education
  • Fire

• I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • People
  • Stories
  • Problems

• War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture of landmines. Art has to take a wider view. The problems of Ireland are my problems, too.

  

  Haris Pasovic
  • War
  • Problems
  • Human Rights

• Engaging with exceptionally hard problems forces us to think differently.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Problems
  • Forces
  • Engaging