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I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal. ↗

— Max Hastings

#always #been #i #liberal #really

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous. ↗

— Max Hastings

#comedy #divine #part #play #realise

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing. ↗

— Max Hastings

#also #am #book #fish #fishing

Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#equality

At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#build #care #enterprise #great #great work

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#because #bird #catch #come #confident

Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series. ↗

— Noah Hathaway

#films #series #tie #tv #tv series

About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#around #charter #charter schools #creating #develop

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#apples #back #blockbuster #comparing #eating

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#ago #around #becoming #electricity #globe