Ed Catmull Quotes

When I was young, it was television that was taking off, and so you had people worried that people were spending too much time watching television.

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• It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

  

  Magnus Scheving
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  • Kids
  • Think

• Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

  

  Laura Miller
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• Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
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• So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
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• There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
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• I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
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• It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

  

  Zebulon Pike
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• I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

  

  Laura Mvula
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• I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
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• When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

  

  Samuel Foote
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• I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
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• The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.

  

  Randy Owen
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• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  

  Tammy Bruce
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• I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Life
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  • Kids

• There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• I was on a sitcom called 'Gary Unmarried' for 37 episodes, and then I was in 'Bad Teacher' with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake.

  

  Kathryn Newton
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• In Germany, it's, let's say it's 5:59 and you're heading for the bakery or whatever and it's due to close at 6. The German will walk right up to that door and close it right in your face, they will lock it on the other side of that glass door with a shrug, like 'sorry'. A South Korean would never do that, ever. And, and this is what I like about them.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
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• Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• When I was young, it was television that was taking off, and so you had people worried that people were spending too much time watching television.

  

  Ed Catmull
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