Eric Ries Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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The fans treated me royally.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
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I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
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We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
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I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.
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Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.
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It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Reading is good, action is better.
