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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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.
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The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.
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Practice and practice and practice, and you'll make friends all over the world.
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There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.
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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.
