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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'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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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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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
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In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.
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No two people who make a movie on a certain budget scale are going to achieve the same thing because it just depends on what sort of favors you can call, and what sort of dynamics you can pull in the play.
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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
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Americans are not afraid of the future.
