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“You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.”

“I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.”

“I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and who will help you find that time where you don't have to think about a job but just making work. If I didn't have those people in my life, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“I had to ride a horse once. In 'King Arthur.' I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.”

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Author:Clive Owen

“Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.”

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Author:Martin O'Malley

“Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.”

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Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?”

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Author:Dan Fogelberg

“Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there's no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.”

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Author:Randy Travis

“10 Rules for Being Human: Rule #1 - You will receive a body. Rule #2 - You will be presented with lessons. Rule #3 - There are no mistakes, only lessons. Rule #4 - The lesson is repeated until learned. Rule #5 - Learning does not end. Rule #6 - "There" is no better than "here". Rule #7 - Others are only mirrors of you. Rule #8 - What you make of your life is up to you. Rule #9 - Your answers lie inside of you. Rule #10 - You will forget all this at birth.”

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Author:Cherie Carter-Scott

“I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.”

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Author:Geddy Lee

“History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.”

Taken Lessons

Author:Jim Leach

“I took my archery lessons. It was really fun to learn something new.”

Fun Lessons Something New Archery

Author:Anna Popplewell

“The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties.”

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Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard

“Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.”

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Author:Steven Rattner

“As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.”

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Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.”

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Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.”

People Mind Kind Enough Shows Home Stupid Lessons Prejudice

Author:Redd Foxx

“Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.”

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Author:Manmohan Singh

“Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.”

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Author:Roselyn Sanchez

“My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.”

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Author:Niki Taylor

“I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.”

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Author:Ayelet Waldman

“The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.”

Film Lessons Combat

Author:Larry Wilcox

“There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.”

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Author:Mike White

“The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.”

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Book:Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?

Source: Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?

“There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.”

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Author:Plato

“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”

Source: Oh, the Things I Know!

“Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.”

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Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]”

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Author:John H Aughey

“My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.”

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Author:Linda Lavin

“I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.”

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Author:Rohinton Mistry

“The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.”

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Author:Anthony Minghella

“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.”

Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

“I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.”

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Author:Tom Verlaine

“What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.”

“I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.”

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Author:Matthew Perry

“Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.”

“Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.”

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Book:The Hunt for Red October

Source: The Hunt for Red October

“The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.”

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Author:Wyatt Earp

“Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people's minds and lives.”

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Author:Mumia Abu-Jamal

“On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.”

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Author:Philip Yancey

“A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“These early Saints were indeed homeless, but they were not hopeless. Their hearts were broken, but their spirits were strong. They had learned a profound and important lesson. They had learned that hope, with its attendant blessings of peace and joy, does not depend upon circumstance. They had discovered that the true source of hope is faith—faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and in His infinite Atonement, the one sure foundation upon which to build our lives.”

“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

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Author:Aristophanes

“I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are not my domain. I do not think about it. Yoga has taught me to think of only working to live a useful life...I will never stop learning, and it have tried to share some lessons with you. I do pray that my ending will be your beginning. The great rewards and the countless blessings of a life spent following the Inward Journey await you.”

“My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.”

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Author:Dana Fox

“I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.”

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Author:Jacquelyn Jablonski

“There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.”

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Author:Ernie Isley

“I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.”

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Author:Ellen Malcolm

“We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.”

Happened Lessons Victim Suicide London Spares July Bombers Suicide Bombers

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

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