Taught Quotes - Page 5

• I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

  Todd Phillips

  Groups, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught.

  Edward Ruscha

  Dark, California, Belts

  "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.

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• To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Grieving, Difficult, Know How

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.

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• I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

  David O. Russell

  Jobs, Writing, Class

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• They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and wrong. You are filled with fears. This conditioning interferes with your psychic perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Kids, Buddhism

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• I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.

  Criss Jami

  Self, Contentment, Taste

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

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• Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we have been taught, so that we may keep our souls unenslaved and absolutely free from domination by any of the visible things loved for the sake of the body. Let us show that we eat for the sake of living, and not be guilty of living for the sake of eating. The first is a sign of intelligence, the second proof of its absence.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Soul, Body

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• The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord-it feels great-but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

  Criss Jami

  Determination, Hate, Humility

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.112, Criss Jami

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• Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.

  NeNe Leakes

  Love Is, Taught Us, Entrepreneur

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• One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

  Ted Lange

  Actors, Cliffs, Restraint

  "Ted Lange sails past 'Love Boat'" by Jesse Hamlin, www.sfgate.com. March 26, 2003.

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• I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

  Cristin Milioti

  School, Aunt, Simple

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• One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, War, Hate

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Humanity, Different, Vocational Education

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• I want to get into producing. I really learned a lot from 'Girls Next Door.' Kevin Burns is a great producer. He's really talented, and he taught me a lot. I'm just looking forward to spreading the wings a little bit. Five seasons on 'Girls Next Door' was great, but it gets a little repetitive.

  Holly Madison

  Girl, Doors, Wings

  "Interview: Oregon's own reality star Holly Madison talks about 'Dancing'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. March 20, 2009.

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• My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.

  Olivia Williams

  Art, Children, Careers

  "Olivia Williams: My family values" by Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

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• One of the things my mother taught me when I was a child was just keep your eye on the prize and as long as you feel that you're right with your creator and you're right yourself, then other people's opinions really don't matter.

  Cathy Hughes

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.

  Lena Horne

  Games, Class, Way

  Lena Horne, Richard Schickel (1966). “Lena”

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• Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

  Alan Paton

  Expect Nothing, Results, Endeavor

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• I mean, if you've ever been a governor of a state, you understand the vast potential of broadband technology, you understand how hard it is to make sure that physics, for example, is taught in every classroom in the state. It's difficult to do. It's, like, cost-prohibitive.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Technology, Example

  "The Complete Bushisms". www.slate.com. June 24, 2004.

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• Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Teaching, Reading

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• My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

  N. Scott Momaday

  Art, Children, Father

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• The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Ideas, Black, Excellence

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• Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

  Richard Lugar

  Eye, Grandchildren, Imagination

  "What I've Learned: Senator Dick Lugar (R, Ind.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t mix in the hard-to-measure stuff that may be more important. That is a mistake I’ve tried all my life to avoid, and I have no regrets for having done that.

  Charlie Munger

  Regret, Mistake, Yield

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• Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

  Michela Wrong

  Hypocrite, Games

  Michela Wrong (2000). “In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo”, Fourth Estate

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