Trained Quotes
873 quotes by 764 authors
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Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
— Bella Abzug
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People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and…
— Michael Howard
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could…
— John D. Rockefeller
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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the…
— Mark Twain
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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its…
— Thomas Huxley
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Experts are just trained dogs.
— Albert Einstein
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A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He…
— H.G. Wells
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I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if…
— Mark Twain
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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible…
— Mark Twain
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Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance.…
— James Cagney
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A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as…
— Martha Graham
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
— Seneca the Younger
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I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the same secret society…
— Noam Chomsky
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I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that…
— Roger Bannister
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My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained…
— John Collison
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
— Ian Dunbar
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The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone…
— Robert Irwin
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I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I was never able…
— Lynda Resnick
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I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible…
— Heather Brooke
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and…
— Iain McGilchrist
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