Adam Lashinsky Quotes

Roku collects money two ways: by selling hardware, which it calls 'players'; and by selling advertising and taking a cut of revenues from the video publishers on its platform.

Adam Lashinsky

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It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

Jim Carrey

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You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

John McTiernan

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The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Steve Jobs

CommitmentDesignYouUnderstandUp

I don't know if a pro wrestling career prepares you for Hollywood. When you get out there, and you're in an arena for 20,000 people or 90,000 people, it's a lot different than being on a quiet set with 100 people, so I think you get used to dealing with cameras.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French, but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

Tom Ford

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I would not really be a part of something that doesn't interest me.

Rithvik Dhanjani

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People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

Ruth Negga

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I didn't learn Chinese to write 'Confucius.' That would've been a monumental task. I have three friends who can translate Chinese text for me; all three helped me with my research on Confucius. They are acknowledged in my acknowledgements in the book.

Russell Freedman

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I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

Michelle Williams

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It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Christian Lous Lange

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We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.

Richard Cordray

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I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

Marjane Satrapi

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