Eric Ries Quotes
When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.
Quotes to Explore
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Fashion is one big family.
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Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.
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We shared our father with the world.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.
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Education is the key in so many ways.
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We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.
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If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.
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The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.
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But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.
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I have a daughter who has taught me a lot along the way.
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Repeatedly opening the oven - or worse, taking out the turkey to baste it - slows down the momentum of cooking.
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There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start to do this bad Rick Moranis voice I do as well when I really get going. It's pretty horrible.
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I absolutely love low-key restaurants.
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I'm bold in personality, I'm hella tall, and I'm hella black.
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U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.
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If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.
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When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.
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Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.
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MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
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And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
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I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.
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When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.
