Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

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• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • World
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• I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

  

  Talia Shire
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• Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

  

  Hannah Murray
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• I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Interesting
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• I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Feel
  • Actress
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• Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Advice

• Adieu les monstres! Adieu les saints! Adieu l'orgueil! Il n'y a que des hommes.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd

• You see, there weren't these magazines like 'Heat' in my day. Always waiting to trip up these pretty girls and make them seem something horrible, something to make them look stupid and small and ugly and disgusting.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Small

• It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Life
  • Time
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• I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • People
  • Great
  • Power

• I have restaurants, bookshops... but it's not an empire, more... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same.

  

  Alain Ducasse

• People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it. What am I gonna do?

  

  Kurt Vile
  • People
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• I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you pull it down?' I'm that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that's the feedback that I'm accustomed to. It's the feedback that I really thrive off of.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Up
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• 'Halloween' is classic Michael Myers.

  

  Dylan Minnette
  • Halloween

• I never solicited a major label and I certainly wouldn't now.

  

  Buzz Osborne

• Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
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• If I'm an entrepreneur and I have an idea, and I don't have the development talent around me but I need to find a developer, I would do my selection just like I would with hiring an employee.

  

  David Cohen
  • Entrepreneur

• We had to grow up very fast. There never was a day when there wasn't shouting about the bills.

  

  Carmen Cusack
  • Up

• I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Fear
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  • Thrive

• In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him.

  

  Christine Ebersole

• But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Bird
  • Flying
  • Entrepreneur