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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Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.
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I'm older, wiser and richer, and I still have just as many headaches. It hasn't changed me drastically; certainly, not in terms of relationships. The people I'm close to, and there aren't many of them, have been close for a long time. And we know each other well enough to know it isn't the quantity of time you spend together, it's the quality.
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The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."
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I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.
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As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.
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Don’t get distracted by the shiny object and if a crisis comes, execute on the fundamentals.
