Learned Quotes
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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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I learned that life, it's beautiful to be alive. I saw a lot of people dead there. When I got out of there, I was happy I was out, happy I was alive.
Ed Figueroa
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That is about all I have learned—to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.
Edwin Lefevre
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Everything I know about passive resistance I learned from Micheline. She always appeared to be doing exactly as she was told, but everything she did took twice as long as it should have.
Elizabeth Wein
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Please forget everything that you have learned in school; for you haven't learned it.
Edmund Landau
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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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He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.
John Ruskin
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I learned that you appreciate what you earn much more than what is given you. I also learned that decisions have consequences.
Richard M. DeVos
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I am writing this during my free . . . oops! un-assigned period, at the end of my first day of teaching. So far, I have taught nothing — but I have learned a great deal. To wit:
We have to punch a time clock and abide by the Rules.
We must make sure our students likewise abide, and that they sign the time sheet whenever they leave or reenter a room.
We have keys but no locks (except in lavatories), blackboards but no chalk, students but no seats, teachers but no time to teach.
The library is closed to the students.
Bel Kaufman
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
Tacitus
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The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
Brennan Manning
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I learned French before I learned Spanish.
Eva Longoria
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Both Pasquale and Rino turned out to be surprisingly good dancers, and we learned from them the tango, the waltz, the polka, and the mazurka.
Elena Ferrante
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He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
John Calvin
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What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of this work securing a location, figuring out how to get electricity there, how to get trucks parked where they need to be, and where catering is going to come from. And if the actors don't come up with some magic, it actually didn't matter. That creates a lot of animosity towards the actors.
Ethan Hawke
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I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.
Erin Cahill
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I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.
Ethan Hawke
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Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here.
Eve Ensler
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Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
Benjamin Carson
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But I’ve learned that I’m stronger than hard, better than pain, and that with enough luck, horrible can go away.
Courtney Milan
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Homer