Lee Unkrich Quotes
I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.
Quotes to Explore
-
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
-
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
-
Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
-
If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
-
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
-
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
-
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
-
Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
-
I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
-
When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
-
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
-
It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
-
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
-
But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
-
It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
-
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
-
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
-
My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me. I think I just felt like I really wanted to hold on to who I was as a person, and try to have as much of a normal life as I could.
-
I don't really create things externally; I'm not that kind of actor.
-
I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
-
I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian.
-
Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.
-
I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.
