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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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 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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The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time, unobscured by the dust of history.
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It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope. lf we are united, we may be able to produce a world in which our children and other people's children will be safe.
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I didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.
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I have a great team. A lot of my focus every day is with my television and film career, directing and producing, and I guess you can say that my moonlighting gig is Tropfest. Obviously, when I am not working I am in the Tropfest office full-time.
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Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
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I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long.
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I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.
