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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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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.
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I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.
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I think what really separates artists from the rest of the world is that artists feel like they have permission to keep exploring and expressing their process. Most people censor that because they don't think it's good enough. Everything is measured against this patriarchal hierarchy of value, as if one person's singing voice is more important than another's.
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All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.
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In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.
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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.
