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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I am torn open, unabridged, hot and a bit crazy inside. This is the feeling which belongs to me, she has always been mine.
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Public influence is the real government of the world.
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My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
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It's funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.
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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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Don’t get distracted by the shiny object and if a crisis comes, execute on the fundamentals.
