Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes
If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.
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I have visited (Burma) and I know that there is only one instrument of government, and that is the army...If I were Aung San Suu Kyi, I think I'd rather be behind a fence and be a symbol than after two or three years, be found impotent.
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Fashion is not interesting unless it has some connection to something outside of that world. It's the same thing with any part of the arts: you can't just take pictures - you have to look at science, to listen to music; you have to be aware of the connections within the world. If you take something in an isolated box, it loses all significance.
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I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.
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If it's a day to indulge, I like to have a burrito or a steak.
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I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?
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To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.
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When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.
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We're trying to change the whole way our merch is viewed, in terms of just not a bunch of skulls interlaced; you know, every album can look the same, so they're going to be stylized and different.
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Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.
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I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
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How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to.
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I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.
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The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.
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As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
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Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.
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If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
