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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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
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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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Seeing the small is called Clarity. Keeping flexible is called Strength. Using the shining Radiance, You enter the Light, Where no harm can come to you. This is called Enlightenment.
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I think, in fact, there's a plus and a minus to knowing my prior work, Happiness and so forth. The plus is of course you can see how I play with the characters, the storylines, and the way things play off each other. And the minus is that it makes you a little bit more self-conscious, that you're not able to enter the movie as it exists and lives and breathes, because you're so busy making references, connections that you're not able to release yourself from and take the film on your own terms.
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If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
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Don’t get distracted by the shiny object and if a crisis comes, execute on the fundamentals.
