Eric Ries Quotes
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The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.
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If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
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The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
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At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I've ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else - all these cool, great things - come along with it.
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Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.
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'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.
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There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.
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I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
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I believe you've got to do your due diligence.
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The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
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There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I've seen a lot of movies with him in it and, even if it's a film that wasn't as successful as you thought it would be, I've never seen him put in a bad performance. My favorite actors from history have to be Steve McQueen and James Dean.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
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I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
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You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'
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People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?
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I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.
