Eric Ries Quotes

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• It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • True
  • Identity
  • Interests

• I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

  

  C. J. Box
  • People
  • Children
  • Real

• I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Small
  • Hate
  • Running

• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nothing

• Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Down
  • Ethical
  • Restore

• For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Up
  • Time
  • Me

• Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Beautiful
  • Beautiful Woman

• My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Different
  • Character
  • First

• We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • motivation
  • Act
  • Talk

• My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Life
  • Why
  • My Life

• What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Man

• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Doing
  • Motivational
  • Quit

• My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Problem
  • Youth

• I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Job
  • Actor
  • Fame

• So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Time
  • Film
  • Care

• As for pineapple, it's far more versatile than you might think, and certainly merits wider use than in Hawaiian pizzas and pina coladas and on cheesy cocktail sticks.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Think
  • You
  • Cheesy

• All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Human
  • Happens
  • Human Beings

• Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Justice
  • Causes
  • Equal

• By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Winter
  • Danger
  • West

• It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Evil
  • Difficult
  • Christ

• The Cube was a wonder - a wonder for itself and a wonder for myself. To me, it was much more strange than to anybody else.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Wonder
  • Strange
  • Cube

• There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • You
  • Television
  • News

• Better to have bad news that's true than good news we made up.

  

  Eric Ries
  • News
  • Made Up