George Armitage Miller Quotes
Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.
Quotes to Explore
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
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I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'
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The motto of feminists: 'There is never an excuse for hitting a woman.' Shouldn’t it be, 'There is never an excuse for hitting.'?
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.
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'Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' - People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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As an actor you always wanna protect your character. You wanna make them loveable, likeable. You wanna make them strong, you want them to be the hero, you want them to always be right.
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I am a huge believer - I always have been - in the power of comedy. That comedy will break hatred and will bring understanding.
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For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
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Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.
