Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

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• If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Think
  • Honor
  • Most

• The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Real
  • Power
  • Worry

• I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Balance
  • Moderation

• I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Wine

• When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Day
  • Sky
  • Blue

• It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • True
  • You
  • Brand

• I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my feet. But I risked everything to come to Los Angeles, where no one knew who I was, and start all over again. It was a very hard step to take. However, it was the moment I thought it was right to take a risk in my career.

  

  Karla Souza
  • People
  • Career
  • Crazy

• I'm a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Confident

• You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Done
  • Software
  • Fix

• I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Play

• Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• The people in my songs are all me.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • People

• Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Money

• I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Moments

• It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

  

  Andrea Bocelli

• I'm not saying all men are likely to cheat.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Men

• I had some wonderful times in my 20s, but your 20s are hard.

  

  LeAnn Rimes

• I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Friends
  • Coffee
  • Restaurant

• I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run? Sarah Palin, reading off her hand. Did you see that? You saw this? She wrote 'tax cuts' on her hand. A Republican so stupid she has to be reminded of the one thing– Tax cuts! This is like if you saw the coyote's paw and it said 'Road Runner'.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Time
  • She
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Money
  • Art
  • Power

• I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

  

  Reed Hastings
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