Elizabeth Thornton Quotes
Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.
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My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
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You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.
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Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.
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Shout out to my boy Guwop. We came in the game, and we learned from the best.
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I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.
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Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.
