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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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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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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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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Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
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We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better.
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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
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I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.
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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.
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Am I too early?" "No. He's waiting for you." The smile faded, to be replaced by a slightly disappointed expression. "I thought you'd be . . . scarier.
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The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")
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I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.
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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.
