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 Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.
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I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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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.
