Eric Ries Quotes
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
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Good and bad - this is the story of my life.
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I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.
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We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.
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I can't worry about what I'm doing to be the National Player of the Year; it's what am I doing to help my team be successful?
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If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.
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The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush to extinction, we need to achieve real, substantive political power, and we need to get there fast.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.
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If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.
