Eric Ries Quotes
A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.
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I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.
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Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
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The most impressive airplane ever, I believe, was designed only a dozen years after the first operational jet. Stayed in service till it was too rusty to fly, taken out of service. We retreated in '98 back to something that was developed in '56. What? The most impressive spaceship ever, I believe, was a Grumman Lunar Lander.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.
