Edwin Catmull Quotes

When companies are successful or not successful, they almost immediately jump to the wrong conclusions about how they got there or why they got there.

Edwin Catmull

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For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

Jim Carrey

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Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.

Joanne Liu

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Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

Rita Dove

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I'm not going to run to the left of Mitch McConnell; I'm not going to run to the right of Mitch McConnell. I am going to run right over the top of Mitch McConnell.

Matt Bevin

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When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop.

Mitch Kapor

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What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

Donald Trump

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I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly.

Corey Haim

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I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

Anthony Hopkins

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When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

Annalee Newitz

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You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.

Philipp Meyer

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Acting is therapeutic. I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.

Shemar Moore

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