Dan Scanlon Quotes
I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
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I've always loved books.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
