Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reed Hastings

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, making itself subject to Chinese legal jurisdiction. It didn't have to do that. It could have provided a service hosted offshore only.

Scott Rudin

I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men are more willing to enter competitions based on that task. Men also show less risk aversion.

Rick Warren

The Constitution is man-made, so it is not perfect. It's not the basis of my beliefs. My belief system is based on the Scriptures which come from God.

Patrick Collison

When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.

Pauly Shore

I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

Marco Rubio

We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.

Ryan Coogler

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

Richard MacDonald

I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics.

We'll pitch certain guys based on the scouting reports and position ourselves accordingly, just like always, ... We play defense as a team. It won't be any different.

We were going off based on what we knew (from the summer) and grapevine stuff. We had to make in-game adjustments.

We have a game plan. We have an anticipation based on all our research, all our conversations with the teams of how the game may be played out and we develop our game plan and strategy based on that.

We have a lot of mixed feelings. It's based on family concerns, not any problem or challenge at Cabrillo.

Hines Ward

You are based on what you do in the Super Bowl. Those guys had the opportunity to win four Super Bowls, and getting this opportunity is a dream come true for me.

Martin Henderson

You are always invested in a film, but there is always a different feeling you get when you are portraying a character that is based on real life and you are re-telling events that actually took place.

We've gotta increase taxes on the rich. We need to have more regulations on success. We need to punish success, be it in the classroom with outcome based education or be it with a tax code or whatever. So what we do is try to take those at the top and bring them down a little bit so they know a little misery so they get closer to what life is like for those who don't do quite as well,

We've made no commitments at this point, but we've certainly considered the possibility of growing, ... We'll make those decisions not based on national trends, but what looks right for Yale.

We've kind of stalled here. Basically we've seen some profit-taking based on the gains we've had since mid-October.

We have to look at the decision and try to correct the ordinance based on that finding of fault. The hearings board has taken away a tool that we thought was a pretty good one.

We're working together with the Derby development team, and we'll provide a complete open-source solution based on Derby and Cloudscape in six to nine months.

We revised the budget based upon September and October taxes that had been collected. When I am looking at this December report, we are another $1.5 million over the revised budget for September and October figures.

Michael Martinez

Voters tend to decide based upon the information that they have. If personal information about a candidate is all they have, voters may use it as an indication of how they might behave in office.

With the upcoming introduction of new vehicles based on the GMT 900 platform, GM should regain lost share in the remarkably profitable large truck and large SUV segments.

Mohamed El-Erian

The best and most sustainable love story for markets is one based on a healthy and dynamic real economy that creates jobs and opportunities for many more people.

Philip Schultz

Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can't do the formulas - you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.

Peter Senge

How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well, it's based on what they value.

My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens.

Dave Parker

My comments at that time were based upon some projects that were coming forward that, when you read the projects and read the proposals and the staff reports, it made you wonder who was driving the long-range planning, ... Were we waiting for developers to come forward with a plan or were we stepping forward with a vision of our own?

Jim Brown

My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based upon the calisthenics I did and get myself ready. For example, I used my forearm when I ran the ball, so I didn't want to do pushups because I wanted my forearms to heal.

Stephen Colbert

My character is not based on (Bill) O'Reilly, ... It's the same guy from The Daily Show. You'd never say it's O'Reilly.

Charlize Theron

My character is fictional, but she is based on all the women who fought the sexual harassment case, and everything you see in the film actually happened.