Taught Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.

  Mariano Rivera

  Uncles, Father, Like Family

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• Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.

  Elliott Yamin

  Growing Up, Inspire, Singing

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

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• My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have also taught me some great tricks over the years for when I'm doing my own.

  Alexa Chung

  Team, Hair, Years

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• I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

  Walter Becker

  Player, Self, Musician

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• I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

  Jackie French

  School, Kids, Garden

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• I was taught that justice is a right that every American should have. Also justice should be the goal of every American. I think that's what makes this country. To me, justice means the innocent should be found innocent. It means that those who do wrong should get their due punishment. Ultimately, it means fair treatment. So a call for justice shouldn't offend or disrespect anybody. A call for justice shouldn't warrant an apology.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Country, Mean, Apology

  "Andrew Hawkins hits back after police label shootings protest 'pathetic'" by Tom Lutz, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2014.

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• Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach – he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father. Coach was always there for me whenever I needed him and I loved him for it. In teaching me the game of basketball, he taught me about life. My heart goes out to Linnea and their kids. We've lost a great man who had an incredible impact on his players, his staff and the entire UNC family.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Teacher, Father

  "Michael Jordan Refers To Dean Smith As His ‘Second Father’ In This Touching Statement" by Andrew Isaac, uproxx.com. February 08, 2015.

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• The primary reason people seek job security is because that is what they are taught to seek, at home and at school..then with debt loads, they must cling even tighter to a job, or professional security, just to pay the bills.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Home, School

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• Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

  Peter Farb

  School, Way, Study

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State”

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• My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

  Seth Gordon

  Tables, Dinner, Kind

  Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.ifc.com. September 30, 2010.

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• I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.

  Chaske Spencer

  Mother, Father, Taken

  "Chaske Spencer, Actor (Twilight)". Interview with Gabriel Canada, www.racebending.com. October 31, 2010.

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• Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the down-market celebrity interview, she knew all the Hollywood codes, and followed the deep backgrounds.

  Peter York

  Girl, Eye, Worry

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