Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes
On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
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I come from a poor family.
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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
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When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
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My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium.. as everyone's printing press.. is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.
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I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
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On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
