Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes
Human entertainment will have moved on to something new. Then the ultimate challenge for us is, can we figure out what that new form of entertainment is?
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
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It is my passion to direct movies.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.
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My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.
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Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.
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I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.
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When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition and you get what you can. Choice isn't something that you have much of.
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Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top. ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?
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It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to publish the kind of books I would buy, and read. My reading habits have changed since starting the press. The only other "goal", per say, is to continue to experiment. I don't want the press to ever fall into a formula, or to be pigeonholed - "They do great reissues of modernist poets!" - I want to keep pushing, exploring the kind of title we can get away with. And working with authors who challenge the way I think about writing, editing and reading.
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Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.
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Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
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Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be
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Human entertainment will have moved on to something new. Then the ultimate challenge for us is, can we figure out what that new form of entertainment is?
