Elizabeth Thornton Quotes
Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.
Quotes to Explore
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute a child is not getting back.
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Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
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The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
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When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.
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I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.
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I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.
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I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.
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I call myself a chameleon.
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What a strange and unfamiliar world if everyone were treated according to his deserts!
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A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
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Ginger: Get off it, Mo. If I can't ogle, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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Please know my deep respect for humans and human life. Such beautiful, fragile animals, so fleeting and easily broken and yet powerful beyond anything faeries can ever hope to be. We cannot create but live forever, unchanging. You change with every breath, dying even as you live, but your thread to eternity and immortality is reborn with every new generation
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I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels in the Blur Rock Profile was a giggle too.
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I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.
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Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.
