Elizabeth Thornton Quotes
To be an effective leader and make sound decisions, you must be able to gather data by seeking out diverse perspectives and be willing to consider points of view other than your own.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.
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I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.
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'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.
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I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
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I feel like God has blessed me so much already, and he keeps continuing to bless me.
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The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.
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Oh! Women can never forgive me. They hate me, they can feel that I ‘m disarming them. I show them without their coquetry, in the states of animals cleaning themselves... ...I'm sure of it; they see me as the enemy. Fortunately, since if they did like me, that would be the end of me.
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Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.
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Dad, there's smoke coming out of the can and coming out of your mouth, too. How do you do that, daddy?
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.
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If in a community of the blind one man suddenly received the gift of sight, he would have much to tell which would not be at all scientific.
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We flow, we descend, we turn . . . and the eternal dreamerMoves among us like light, like evening air . . .
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A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
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Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
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With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
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Turns out he does run," Nick drawled. "Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking." "That was not a shriek," Jamie said with dignity. "It was a husky masculine cry of terror.
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My environment is important to me. I'd rather give up other things in my life - I might not take vacations or spend a lot of money on clothes - so that I can live in a home I feel really good about.
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To be an effective leader and make sound decisions, you must be able to gather data by seeking out diverse perspectives and be willing to consider points of view other than your own.
