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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Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.
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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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The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.
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People want to make sure there is flexibility to reallocate assets. They are trusting us to make the asset allocation decisions.
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A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
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Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.
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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.
