Andrew Stanton Quotes
I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.
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Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
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One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.
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I think it is wrong to spend $4 or $5 million in a campaign.
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I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.
