Elizabeth Thornton Quotes
We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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It's not how you come out of the starting blocks.
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A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.
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The inner trip is not the sole prerogative of the LSD traveler; it’s the universal experience of TV watchers.
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Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.
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I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or Ryder Cup matches. It's like golf amnesia.
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We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.
