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You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

~Elizabeth Emken

Topics: Background Know Years You

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We need a comprehensive strategy that includes expanding criminal background checks for all commercial gun sales, dedicated federal law to combat gun trafficking, and a strong commitment to mental health services.

~Elizabeth Esty

Topics: Background Checks Combat Commercial Commitment Comprehensive Criminal Dedicated Expanding Federal Gun Health Law Mental Mental Health Need Sales Services Strategy Strong Trafficking

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We perceive through our senses a person, a situation or an event, and in an instant, we project our mental models - our fears, background and experiences - onto that perception. This often results in cognitive errors, which means we judge and respond incorrectly.

~Elizabeth Thornton

Topics: Background Cognitive Errors Event Experiences Fears Incorrectly Instant Judge Means Mental Models Often Onto Our Perceive Perception Person Project Respond Results Senses Situation Through Which

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My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.

~Ella Eyre

Topics: About After Always Background Ella Fitzgerald Hill James Kid Listening Me More Named Pop Soulful Stone Voice

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I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

~Ellen Ochoa

Topics: Background Education Educational Good Had Having Opportunities Out Result Stand Students Tell Were You

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What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

~Ellen Ochoa

Topics: Astronaut Background Common Corps Desire Discovery Ethnic Everyone Gender Motivation Participate Perseverance Shares Voyage

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Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of the mind. But the machine has no corners. Despite all the attempts to see the computer as a brain, the machine has no foreground or background.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Attempts Background Brain Buts Computer Contain Corners Deal Despite Great Great Deal Human Ifs Leap Machine Mind Misunderstandings Over See Skip Small Thinking

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It's interesting because with a lot of people who I've met in comedy, it seems not to matter what your background is. In terms of formal schooling - I feel like that's a nineteenth century term - but in terms of where you went to high school or college, or wherever, all that really is irrelevant, I have found, in comedy.

~Ellie Kemper

Topics: Background Because Century College Comedy Feel Formal Found High High School Interesting Irrelevant Like Lot Matter Met Nineteenth Nineteenth Century People Really School Schooling Seems Term Terms Where Wherever Who You Your I Feel I Feel Like

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Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.

~Elliott Erwitt

Topics: Background Car Changed Clothing Evolved Except Pictures Pleasure Professionally Required

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My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

~Elon Musk

Topics: Around Background Economics Engineer Engineering Environment Father Grew Lots Me Physics Sort Things Up Were

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