Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes
Don’t get distracted by the shiny object and if a crisis comes, execute on the fundamentals.
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.
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I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!
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We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.
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Righteousness has never precluded adversity.
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Space is very unforgiving business.
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Just in general, staying healthy and active is important.
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
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You just assume that you have some anan, ana, ananonimity, anonymity? Yeah, anonimity.
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I don't want to play out of another man's bag.
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Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.
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You never have to guess where you stand with me.
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We have a nice veteran team. To have seven seniors is outstanding and it's a mix that has been running since freshman year. They were thrown into the fire early and have come along nicely.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.
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It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.
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Don’t get distracted by the shiny object and if a crisis comes, execute on the fundamentals.
