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I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

Patsy Kensit

Catholic, Church, Comfort

"Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.

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My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Father, Hammers, Tools

Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Who I Am, Order, Needs

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Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

Anthony Kennedy

Democracy, Generations

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I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

Jason Momoa

Father, Half, Sacred Things

Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

John Mahoney

Opposites, Class, Play

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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

Kamisese Mara

Religious, Jesus, Teaching

Opening address, Pacific Vision festival, Auckland, New Zealand, July 26, 1999.

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Happiness can be thought, taught and caught... but not bought.

Harvey Mackay

Happiness, Caught

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My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

Jonathan Krohn

Mother, Speak, Posture

"New wonder kid on the block" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

Robert Kagan

Age, Known, One Thing

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I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

Mercedes McCambridge

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And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

Norman MacCaig

Thinking, Literature, Poetry Is

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Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

Pranab Mukherjee

Teaching, Thinking, Class

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When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.

Richard Madden

Couple, Years, Tv Shows

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.

Sun Myung Moon

Regret, Unification Church, Messages

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I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

Gary Neville

Football, Fighting, Years

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My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Meghan O'Rourke

Understanding, Culture, Study

Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.103, Penguin

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Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

Jimmy Buffett

Education, Ignorance, Apathy

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Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

Bob Dylan

Education, Streets

Song: Like A Rolling Stone

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Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

Stevie Wonder

Education, Men, Age

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Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.

Swami Vivekananda

Expression, Oneness, Religion

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2974, Manonmani Publishers

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Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

Diana Lopez

Girl, Mom, Strong

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Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

Dino De Laurentiis

Intuition, Actors, Scripts

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All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

Eva LaRue

Children, Work Ethic, Opera

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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

Sam Palladio

Self, Trying, Together

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