John Quotes

New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

It's amazing and a miracle that any film gets made, you have so many moving parts.

My wife told me I'm not as disgusting to her as I used to be.

You hear players, media people, say that it's tough to play in Philly in front of these fans, to those people I say: you didn't have the guts to succeed here!

I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X- or otherwise.

Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar.

No one promised you there would be universal justice.

Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

Monotheism begins with a god who hates trees.

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

The amount of competition is just literally insane.

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure.

Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.

Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.

Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

Isn't it amazing how much better you listen when you are in need?

I see no women out here, and you're chanting about a male organ, now tell me who's the fruit bootie?

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

I never build myself us. I let the people do that. I'm the most laid-back person, and I let them build me up. If you ask me, I say, 'I''m just a guy playin' some blues.

I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.

I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.