Eric Ries Quotes

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• I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Movies

• Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Future

• I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Desert

• Going 3-13 is not acceptable.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Going
  • Acceptable

• I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • God
  • Movie
  • Acting

• Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Famous

• I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Advice

• Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

  

  Barbara Pym
  • Man
  • Very
  • Obscure

• I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
  • Libertarian
  • Programs

• My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Food
  • Mom
  • Uncle

• Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally approved of or even recognized at the time; they make fun of honored figures and piously held beliefs; and they view social pretenses with clear-eyed directness, remarking - as in Andersen's famous tale - that the emperor has no clothes.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Mean

• Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Hope
  • Emotions
  • Crystal

• When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Product
  • Zero sales

• I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Work
  • Want
  • Change

• I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Reason
  • Saying
  • Nonsense

• I'm writing a story in my journal, and I'm searching for a true voice. I make my way through layers of acquired voices, silly voices, sententious voices, voices that are too cool and too overheated. Then they all quiet down, and I reach what I'm searching for: silence.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Silence
  • Story
  • Voice

• Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Product
  • Rush