Taught Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Mother, Forgiving, Kind

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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