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I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.


John Lasseter

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JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE