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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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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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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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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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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When a film fails, the lead actor is always blamed for it.
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New Zealand is such a down-to-earth place.
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Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.
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Frankly, it can be lonely at the top when it comes to driving diversity.
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When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.
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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.
