Ed Catmull Quotes
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
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I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
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There is nothing so striking to the eye on a return to England from the Continent as the stateliness of our trees. I do not know of any trees in Europe to compare with ours.
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Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
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I believe the gun has no power at all.
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One third of the economy goes through 'QuickBooks' in terms of businesses invoicing other businesses. Each invoice contains a connection between vendors, suppliers, and customers, and also the price of that connection. Representing the payment graph is huge opportunity and something no other company can do.
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If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.
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I've had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love.
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We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.
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There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.
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One way to understand human progress is to look at how technology has made products and services - once reserved for the elite - progressively more accessible and affordable.
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I prefer a scruffy atmosphere.
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Lucasfilm has always had an openness to technology.
