Learned Quotes
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To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.
Ethan Canin
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Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.
Esi Edugyan
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You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for.
Elijah
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.
Tertullian
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I've learned in my older age how to let it go when things don't work out, because something incredible that I don't know about yet is probably right around the corner.
Eric Benet
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That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.
William Faulkner
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All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.
Jonathan Swift
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I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.
Marilyn Monroe
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
Thomas Carlyle
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I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
Robert Wagner
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Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you.
Mike Thompson
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It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.
Marcel Proust
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Email servers learned to laugh.
Blake Butler
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That's because I've learned how to use it [smile], Woserit said. I don't pass it out like an old woman giving free milk to the village cats. It's something that must be controlled, and for you especially. You use it on anyone. You must learn to be more judicious.
Michelle Moran
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I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.
Eugene O'Neill
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
Mignon McLaughlin
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The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and nature are mind's Environment within which we can detect the essence of man's Being and Purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness.
Morris Graves
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I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.
Emily Raboteau
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My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
Etta James
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I have been hugely successful at times in my life, and I have also been in ruins. But the lessons I learned on the way up were just as valuable on the way down.
Molly Bloom
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The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.
Lao Tzu
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In college, a group of guys labelled me a "righteous little beaver." Again, I was slightly pissed because it seemed offensive and misdirected, but when I learned that beavers swim upstream, I realized that maybe it was fitting after all.
Amy Richards
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Every man, who has fought in a battle, is now ash, every sword has been eaten by rust, but the lessons still must be learned
Conn Iggulden
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We can't wait to make the second album, ... We learned a lot on the road. When we made 'Hot Fuss' we recorded the songs just the way we played them when we were playing bars in Vegas. This time out we're going to take our time with the guitar and keyboard sounds.
Brandon Flowers The Killers