Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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People sometimes say that it's cheaper to give their kids a couple of pounds to get themselves a burger or pizza. I don't mind people doing that, but not every night. It's like everything in life, you've got to get the balance right.
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Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.
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I love the atmosphere of shopping in London. Sometimes I just go into a boutique, not to buy but to listen to the music.
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My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldn't agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them.
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It takes a good actor to sound excited every time.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
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You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.
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Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
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I'm very into urban chic; it goes with my personality.
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Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.
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Acknowledging the realities of structural and institutional racism is hard for conscionable white people. It might ask them to consider how they're personally implicated, or have gained from systems that have oppressed and rejected others. It might require them to take a next step. It's easier to say, "I don't see race," or to dismiss the Black Lives Matter movement as structureless and theatrical than to embrace and promote its most basic premise, which is to believe that black lives have worth.
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I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.
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...socialism had somehow made time more flexible. There were often situations when 1 PM and 5 PM were interchangeable.
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English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.
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I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.
