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.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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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.
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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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.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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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.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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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.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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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.'
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.
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People try to sell a fantasy with beauty campaigns. Overly Photoshopped, perfect, white, thin figures are a standard that most people still hold as beautiful because the industry says so.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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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.
