Ed Catmull Quotes
As I look back on my career, I had a goal, which was to build the first feature computer-animated film.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Of course I get hurt.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'
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For those of us who want to accomplish something for the country, we need to come up with a list ... of anti-spending reforms which are locked into place so we are dramatically lowering the appetite of the federal government over the future.
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An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.
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I'm so lucky I got a career in my 30s because these young girls aren't allowed to have their 20s. It's all being documented.
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As I look back on my career, I had a goal, which was to build the first feature computer-animated film.
