Elizabeth Loftus Quotes
Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.
Quotes to Explore
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
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I believe in content, and I go accordingly.
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I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.
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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
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In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly.
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Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.
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It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
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Connecting with fans is very important to me and useful, too! It's almost as if I have my own focus group. If I put up one picture that gets 1,000 likes and one that gets 15,000 likes, it gives me a big clue as to what people like to see.
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Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.
