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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
James Brown really taught me a lot - his lyrics and his performance and whatever he does when he's onstage. I'll always… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going.… — Ryan White Copy Share Image
In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
No child is taught to kill, but he has to be taught to love, respect, honor and value, not only his own… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Michael [Marcus] taught me one thing that was incredibly important... He taught me that you could make a million dollars. He showed… — Bruce Kovner Copy Share Image
Stories, as we're taught in journalism school early on, are told through people. Those stories make our documentaries powerful. You can explore… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
My mom taught me how to sew when I was super young; I used to make clothes for my dolls. When I… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
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We're not really brought up in a culture where we believe we're meant to be happy, that peace is our birthright. It's… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Girls and guys are like a bus stop - they come and go. You never know, like, who's going to be the… — Daren Kagasoff Copy Share Image
I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
For me when I go in and audition for things, I just let them go as soon as I leave. I can… — Haylie Duff Copy Share Image
I'm able to impact kids' lives, I'm able to give back and I will impact so many kids' lives because I feel… — La'el Collins Copy Share Image
Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I have an amazing mother who's a real tough cookie. She taught me not to get emotional about [sexism in Hollywood], just… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
We do not think in a linear, sequential way, yet every body of information that is given to us is given to… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
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My mother taught me my first bhajan. My mother, Shobha Nigam, was a very religious woman. From her only I learnt 'Om… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
In times past, knowledge of the bowel was more widespread and people were taught how to care for the bowel. Somehow bowel… — Bernard Jensen Copy Share Image
Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image