Hasso Plattner Quotes
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything.
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I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
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I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.
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Americans are not afraid of the future.
