Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes
I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
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This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
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I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
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My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
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Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
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We want to help U.S. entrepreneurs, small business owners, and brands and companies of all sizes sell their goods to the growing Chinese consumer class. Chinese consumers will get to buy the American products they want. This, in turn, will help create American jobs and increase U.S. exports.
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I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.
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When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in Trance, which is about half an hour from Malibu.
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Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.
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It was absurd and frustrating, to feel so much and know so little.
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You never know what'll happen in politics.
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iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up.
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In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.
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I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
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I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.
