Taught Quotes
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Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
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I was always taught to be hungry and humble.
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The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!
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I love my dad. He's the biggest thing in my life. He taught me and he straightened me out and he kept me in line. If it hadn't been for him standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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Is virtue something that can be taught?
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The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.
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Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.
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My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
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My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.
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The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.
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My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.
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The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.
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Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.
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We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.
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No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.
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He used to play in some of the Big Bands and a few jazz outfits. He taught me scales and things, but then he died when I was 15.
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Character is always more caught than taught.
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I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.
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We spend most of our lives trying to unlearn much of what we've been taught.
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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
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I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum but on a circle, where they inevitably meet in their extremity.
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Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.
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My family especially has always taught me to be myself and not let other people's opinions change me. To always believe my instincts and follow my heart.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
