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“Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things.”

“I really did feel like I was surrounded by family members. I didn't have a dad, and I remember there were all these guys - in the old days, there were no women, except a makeup artist or, occasionally, a script supervisor. So there were just guys who taught me how to, you know, whittle wood, or how to pull focus, and what the camera was doing. And if I was being bratty, they'd sit me down and tell me. There were lots of rules about not being late and making sure that you didn't spill anything. So it felt a little bit like I was in a family.”

Ifs Knows Feels Littles Remember Artist Guy Felt Bits Focus Taught Dad Members Late Little Bit Down And Cameras Scripts Woods Makeup Old Days Spills Family Members Supervisors Makeup Artist

Author:Jodie Foster

“Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.”

Stills Moving Taught Dancer Ballet Ballet Dancer

Author:Guy Maddin

“My grandmother taught me, you believe in a politician, you get out there and work for them. So, that`s what I`ve been doing.”

Believe Taught Politician Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Killer Mike

“I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre.”

Use Used Taught Theatre Stilts Unicycles

Author:Tobias Segal

“Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.”

Responsibility Taught Discipline Lessons Life Lesson Gymnastics Gymnast

Author:Shawn Johnson

“I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson.”

People Lasts Beautiful Mother Week Taught Lessons Indiana Beautiful People Andrea Indianapolis

Author:Elton John

“Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.”

Needs Faces Challenges Taught Injury

Author:Shawn Johnson

“I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.”

Years Firsts Courses Taught Moved London Phds

Author:Deborah Smith

“I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are taught geography.”

People Littles Five Taught Tests Geography

Author:Ayshay

“My mother and my father taught me to look at the actual problem, not the face of it, not the veneer of it. So for me, I was never - I was impressed that it - racially, I was impressed, right, but now in America it's about economics, and it's been about economics, and honestly, everything's been about economics since I don't want to say the beginning of time, but it's been about economics for a long while.”

Want Looks Long Problem America Faces Mother Father Taught Economics Honestly Impressed Veneer

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Destiny's Child literally taught me how to sing.”

Children Destiny Taught

Author:Katy B

“People have taught me what most doctors don't learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they're doing very well and to keep it up. I learned to say, "You didn't die when you were supposed to so what's going on?", and they always had a story to tell me.”

People Wells Doe Stories Dies Taught Doctors Expected

Author:Bernie Siegel

“It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.”

Different Self Play Able Joy Taught Musician Toes Great Music Schooled Great Musician Self Taught

Author:Cass McCombs

“When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.”

Young Used Taught Camps Baha Baha I

Author:Cass McCombs

“Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Moments Speak Voice Taught Resurrection Seminary

Author:Frederick Buechner

“We grew up as this family of deniers. And people who knew us for years were stunned when "The Great Santini" came out because we had this appearance of being this happy, large, smiling family. We were taught to smile, put the best face forward. And so when the book ended up - Dad swatting us around the room, no one believed me.”

People Years Book Faces Rooms Taught Grew Dad Grew Up Appearance Stunned

Author:Terry Gross

“I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.”

Self Taught Backgrounds Classical Music Guitarist Self Taught

Author:Adam Jones

“When I want something, I want it now, and Daft Punk taught me to be more patient.”

Want Taught Patient Punk Want Something Daft Daft Punk

Author:Pedro Winter

“I think it [my first heartbreak] probably just taught me that you will always heal. That this too shall pass. The first time you feel that sort of pain, you think it's never going to go away. Once you do survive it, you realize you can survive anything.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Pain Realizing Taught First Time Heal Going Away This Too Shall Pass

Author:Zoe Kravitz

“I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me the intricacies of language - just shied away from the issue. They didn't want to talk about it, other than to suggest I could be a "role model" to other Hispanics - when I went back to my barrio, I suppose.”

Men Want Language Roles Issues Taught Anxiety Models Minorities Meant To Be Professors Role Models Intricacy

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“I have a good black friend who is a doctor, but he didn't become a doctor because he saw other black men who were doctors. He became a doctor because his mother cleaned office buildings at night, and because she loved her children. She grew bowlegged from cleaning office buildings at night, and in the process she taught him something about courage and bravery and dedication to others.”

Men Children Mother Night Process Black Saws Building Taught Grew Office Doctors Bravery Dedication Cleaning Bravery And Courage Office Buildings

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because the Irish nuns who educated me taught me something about bravery with their willingness to give so much to me.”

Giving Made Father Taught Bravery Teeth Educated Willingness Nun

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was blown away. He taught me so much about looking at women and looking at images.”

Taught Afar Blown Away Steven Meisel

Author:Guido Palau

“All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.”

Believe Law Taught Physics Scales Experiments Consistent Quantum Quantum Physics

Author:Mitch Horowitz

“There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything at the Actor's Studio. But nevertheless, she felt that it impeded her.”

Stills Use Actors Felt Memories Emotional Taught Studios Nevertheless Emphasis

Author:James Lipton

“I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?”

Faces Certain Students Taught University Terrorist Spokes Our Relationship Thrust Microphones Forums

Author:Bill Ayers

“Today, most models don't know the first thing about makeup. My mom taught me that makeup is supposed to enhance my natural beauty, not create a mask.”

Knows Firsts Today Natural Taught Mom Models My Mom Mask Makeup

Author:Christina Zilber

“For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.”

Language Century Taught Mathematics

Author:T Bone Burnett

“When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose name was Carol Parsinan, a wonderful teacher. And Carol did a really great thing for me. She taught me more than anyone.”

Humanity Names Teacher Wonderful Taught College Great Things Really Great Iowa Freshman Carols Wonderful Teacher

Author:Edward Hirsch

“When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. And the reason for that is because the fiction writers seemed to need to learn how to pay greater attention to language itself, to the way that language works.”

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Author:Edward Hirsch

“My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.”

Thinking Knows Way Faces Taught Racism Grandmother Racist My Grandmother Neurotic Taught Us Michigan Psychotic

Author:James Earl Jones

“I was living, growing up in a very traditional household and yet at the same time I was going to school in the United States where I was taught the importance of personal preference, so at home it was all about learning your duties and responsibilities whereas in school it was all about well you get to decide what you want you want to eat.”

Want Wells States Home School United Responsibility United States Growing Up Growing Taught Duty Importance What You Want Traditional Household Preference Personal Preferences

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.”

Firsts Book Hard Law Father Fiction Study Taught Areas Decided Police Series Criminals California Procedures Detectives Expertise Fiction Writers Criminal Law Detective Fiction

Author:Sue Grafton

“I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.”

Children Mother Taught Dancing Jazz Ballet Flexible

Author:Michael Angarano

“My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.”

“Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.”

“It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.”

Art Easy Difficult Taught Masters Martial Arts

Author:Gogen Yamaguchi

“Jesus taught us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" not forgive us and smite those bastards who hurt us.”

Jesus Hurt Taught Praying Forgiving Taught Us

Author:Nadia Bolz-Weber

“What happens is when you start to believe it in here your brain starts to believe it out here in our physical world so you have to understand it is a reverse of what we have been taught. "When I see it I will believe it".”

World Believe Has Beens Happens Brain Taught Reverse

Author:John Assaraf

“My mom taught me how to sew when I was super young; I used to make clothes for my dolls. When I finally went to [fashion design] school [in 1999], I really took to pattern making. Everyone in class was good at something; I was the person, if you need help with your patterns, you come to me and I would help you out.”

Ifs Needs Persons Helping School Young Used Class Fashion Design Taught Mom Clothes Patterns My Mom Dolls Need Help Fashion Design

Author:Serena Williams

“My parents both worked - my mom was an accountant, and my dad is a builder - and that taught me about having a really strong work ethic, and I respected them a lot for that.”

Strong Parent Taught Mom Dad Ethics My Dad My Mom Work Ethic Builder Accountants Strong Work Ethic

Author:Miranda Kerr

“There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over America. This means that right and wrong is dependent upon the circumstances.”

Mean School America Moral Taught Circumstances Ethics Absolutes Dependent Public School

Author:Ted Cruz

“We see systematically taught in our high schools today that kids not have to hear their parents, that they can make their own rules, and not even live by what their parents, so there's no guidance from the parents. And there's a concerted effort why - government must be their God.”

Government Kids Today School Parent Effort Taught High School Guidance Live By

Author:Rafael Cruz

“The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.”

People Men Has Beens Hate Culture Names Left Black White Teaching Taught Walking Slavery Black People Muhammad Dead Man Brainwashed Elijah Walking Dead Elijah Muhammad

Author:Muhammad Ali

“So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted.”

Made Problem Wanted Names Speak Language Teach Heard Taught Slavery Blind Islam Dumb Deaf Muhammad True Religion Elijah Elijah Muhammad Arabic Language

Author:Muhammad Ali

“The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns.”

World Country America Powerful Military Taught Gun Most Powerful Bullets Machinery Taught Us

Author:Muhammad Ali

“I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won't get you everything you want. You need more than just passion and hope. It's important to do what I'm good at and suits me.”

Want Needs Important Reality Used Passion Taught Ambition Used To Be Suits Ambitious

Author:Seungri

“I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it [St. Stephen’s] was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.”

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Author:Ian MacKaye

“Brazilian women are taught to take care of themselves. They start their beauty routine at a young age, which is the key to aging beautifully.”

Care Age Young Taught Keys Aging Take Care Routine Young Age

Author:Adriana Lima

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