Taught Quotes - Page 35

• You were never taught how to talk with your face like you speak with words.

  Paul Ekman

  Faces, Speak, Like You

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• Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.

  Susana Martinez

  Believe, Responsibility, Hard Work

  "Susana Martinez RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.

  Johannes Kepler

  Games, Play, History

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• I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.

  Jason Mraz

  Writing, Self, Musician

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

  Richard Meale

  Self, Study, Composition

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.

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• I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs. 50 cents per walk, per dog, and that accumulated quickly. I bought a camera, a telescope. I taught myself astrophotography. I did all this.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dog, Cameras, Telescopes

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm not extremely political. I think everything should be layed out and you can make your own conclusions. As soon as I feel I'm being taught something or preached something, I just glaze over it and I don't want to hear it.

  Rob Zombie

  Thinking, Political, Want

  Source: movieweb.com

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• My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Winning, Play

  "Q&A: Pacers president Larry Bird". Interview with Mike Mazzeo, www.espn.com. March 25, 2015.

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• There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.

  Anchee Min

  Book, Orchids, Evil

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• My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

  Alyson Hannigan

  Mom, Thinking, Hard

  "Alyson Hannigan Followed Mom Emilie Posner's Advice on Marriage to Alexis Denisof" by nationalledger.com, April 30, 2012.

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• I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

  Melissa Etheridge

  Swimming, Pool, Brad

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• The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

  Rita Ora

  Best Things

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

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• I taught myself to tune in to another persons wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

  Wolfman Jack

  Trying, Tunes, Wavelength

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• Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Christian, Mother, Praying

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• Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

  Donald Trump

  Investing Money, Entrepreneur, Paper

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Mom, Dad, Housewife

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• Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.

  Paul Bloom

  Powerful, Taught Us, Pay

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• In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

  Dennis Prager

  College, Race, White

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.59, Creators Publishing

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• What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Gentleman, Sage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.113, Рипол Классик

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• I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.

  Karl Marlantes

  Mean, Trying, Want

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• The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

  Karl Marlantes

  Marine, Killing, Teach

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Art, Class, Chinese

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• My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.

  Bubba Watson

  Fun, Dad, Leader

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• My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.

  Phil Niekro

  Hurt, Dad, Team

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• My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Mom, Husband, Father

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