Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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I want to win championships.
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
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I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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The Church owns property, needs income, employs men, works on human material, and banks on its moral prestige. Its present efficiency and future standing are bound up for weal or woe with the social welfare of the people and with the outcome of the present struggle.
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The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
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I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.
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The people in my songs are all me.
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Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.
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You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
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More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
