Taught Quotes - Page 19

• I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, Army, Elderly

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm sharp... What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

  Pitbull

  Hustle, Streets

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Hate, Tragedy

  "Dr. Jane Goodall: Healing and possibility of peace". Live chat, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes and to look at writing the way a writer looks at writing, and not just the way a reader looks at writing. There are a lot of techniques and skills that can be taught that will be helpful to anybody, no matter how gifted they are, and I think writing programs can be very good for people.

  Michael Chabon

  Mistake, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2000.

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• Schools teach the need to be taught.

  Ivan Illich

  School, Needs, Teach

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• When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Giving, Great Teacher, Angelou

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• One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

  Thomas a Kempis

  Wise, Reality, Views

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• ...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Book, Secret Identity

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• Searching, pondering, and applying the words of Christ as taught in the scriptures will bring wisdom and knowledge beyond our mortal understanding. This will strengthen our commitment and provide the spiritual reserves to do our best in all situations.

  Dean M. Davies

  Spiritual, Commitment, Understanding

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• It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.

  John Ruskin

  Mother, Passion, Law

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• Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independence, Comfort

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• We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina.
  If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied-the incarnations of their respective faiths-asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?

  Eliza Griswold

  Religious, Jesus, War

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• Being kind is the most important thing Ive ever been taught. Thats what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

  Rafe Spall

  Ambition, People, Parent

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• I taught high school students Spanish.

  Daniela Bobadilla

  School, Students, High School

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• I believe in God. Nobody made me believe; I don't think you can or should try to force someone to believe something. And even though my parents taught me stuff about God and read Bible stories to me from as early as I can remember... it was my choice to become a believer in Him. The way I see it, putting our faith in God is something that each person has to come to on his or her own. It's your own personal relationship with Him; a bond that's as unique as a fingerprint.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Believe, Unique, Thinking

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• I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Errors, Perfect, Revelations

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• Ive fostered five dogs for the Best Friends Program, which is an amazing no-kill sanctuary for animals, as well as a greyhound named Natasha from the greyhound rescue. All of my fosters have taught me great lessons like patience, nurture, and responsibility. My last foster dog was a Cocker Spaniel, and I couldnt let him go. I adopted him!

  Olesya Rulin

  Dog, Responsibility, Animal

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• It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, America, Age

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• One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

  Monica Raymund

  Parent, One Thing

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• One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

  Liya Kebede

  Spotlight, Modeling, One Thing

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• The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

  Liya Kebede

  Mom, Effort, Advice

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• [Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.

  Howard Zinn

  Children, Generations, Burning

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.646, Seven Stories Press

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• One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

  Charles M. Blow

  Gay, Rights, Movement

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• He will be the best Christian who has Christ for his Master, and truly follows Him. Some are disciples of the church, others are disciples of the minister, and a third sort are disciples of their own thoughts; he is the wise man who sits at Jesus' feet and learns of Him, with the resolve to follow His teaching and imitate His example. He who tries to learn of Jesus Himself, taking the very words from the Lord's own lips, binding himself to believe whatsoever the Lord hath taught and to do whatsoever He hath commanded-he I say, is the stable Christian.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Wise, Jesus

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• Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow 'them' to be more like 'us'.

  Peggy McIntosh

  Thinking, Average, Benefits

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