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.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Live
  • War
  • Together

• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Truth
  • Win
  • Lawyer

• 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.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Life
  • Political
  • Creation

• 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.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Work
  • College
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

  

  Feist
  • Music
  • Joy
  • Positive

• They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• 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.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Army
  • Fence

• 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.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • World
  • Music
  • Science

• I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

  

  Brenton Thwaites
  • School
  • History
  • Drama

• 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?

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • Team

• 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.

  

  Clare Bowen
  • People
  • Brave
  • Storm

• Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.

  

  Jonathan Carroll
  • Bad
  • Coffee
  • Airplane

• I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Music
  • Song
  • Surprise

• How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Book
  • Stop
  • Cupcake

• In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

  

  Gerard Depardieu
  • Film
  • Industry
  • Stupidity

• After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Sun

• It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back."

  

  Carlos Alomar
  • Sound
  • Individual
  • Experiments

• I loved 'The Secret of NIMH.' When that came out, it felt like, 'Wow, this is something really, really new.' It looked like a Disney film, but it felt very cutting edge to me. To a twelve-year-old kid, it seemed very inspiring.

  

  Rich Moore
  • Like
  • Secret
  • Cutting

• If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Silly

• If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Smile
  • Secret
  • Individual