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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Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
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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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I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
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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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I created FEED as a way to provide people with a tangible way to make an impact in the fight against hunger, with each purchase of a FEED product donating meals directly to children in need.
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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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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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I own at least 300 pairs of sneakers.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.
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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.
