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“I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me.”

Problem Church Sin Taught Originals Nun Original Sin Exclusivity

Author:Susan Sarandon

“I was a guest at CalArts. John Baldessari invited me out a few times. I've been there. I've been in Pasadena, taught out at Boulder, University of Colorado. And I've taught in Europe. I've lectured and taught. I've taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nigne [sp]. I was there for a couple of weeks, I was there. I've taught all over - in Switzerland, Germany.”

Art Week Taught Couple Europe University Germany Guests Invited Colorado Switzerland Boulders Pasadena

Author:Robert Barry

“They [Tom Hanks and Paul Newman] were simply always high level masters, and taught me as a kid actor never to be an a*shole to anybody, because it would be very tough to get past where they are.”

Would Be Kids Past Actors Levels Taught Masters Tough Toms High Level Newman

Author:Tyler Hoechlin

“When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin N.] Cardozo. But you go back and read their prose and it's sort of perfumed and very ornate and show-offy. And they're constantly striving for these abstractions that seem archaic nowadays.”

People Shows Seems School Law Taught Strive Prose Abstraction In-laws Holmes Great Writers Law School

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

“I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.”

Way Young Students Taught Physics Urges Ecology Nature Love Young Students

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.”

Years Stills Wanted Order Subjects Figures Taught Hero Higher Ten Scientist Mathematics Inspired University Physics Nine Physicist My Hero

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I was taught to work hard and to be honest, and that's what I try to do, so that's it.”

Trying Hard Honest Taught Hard Work Being Honest

Author:Joe Arpaio

“I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry.”

Art Differences Fiction Taught Former Prose Latter Flash

Author:Matthea Harvey

“We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time, after the war. My mother had many Vietnamese friends who entertained a lot, and she was taught how to make that spring roll. She would make them all the time.”

War Young Mother Taught Spring France Refugee Vietnamese Vietnamese Refugees

Author:Eric Ripert

“That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system.”

School Taken Taught Multiculturalism Public School Curriculum School System

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I'm sure you're gonna be taught, if you haven't already, that the people that were here, the Native Americans were beautiful, they were wonderful, they were at one with nature, and these evil white Europeans like Columbus came in and killed them and took them, imprisoned them, stole what was theirs, took it for ourselves.”

People Ifs Beautiful Evil White Wonderful Havens Taught Native Native American Columbus One With Nature

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.”

Writing Taught Waste Scripts Wasting Time

Author:Cliff Martinez

“We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the flesh and drink the milk of other animals. Because of this conditioning, which has occurred over a long period of time (thousands of years), we have developed addictive eating habits and blinded ourselves to the facts of our biological system and its true needs.”

“I am raising my children with the Christian faith and life lessons I was taught. I am equipping them with all of the information and guidance as a parent and hope they will make sound decisions. The most important thing is to teach kids to stand firm in what they believe and not be swayed by detractors no matter what the subject matter.”

“Our faith is what inspires us to reach out and volunteer to help others. As a child my parents taught me the biblical charge, "To whom much is given, much is expected," and faith guides me that way. And I believe, especially in this day and age, it's vital that we provide our children with a foundation from which to build their lives - one that gives them a sense of purpose.”

“Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.”

Mother Failing Taught Stones Opposites Stepping Stones

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal miners. Why did they go into that line of work? Because that's what they were taught. Or was it in their genes? It's not an either/or question. It's both. I was inclined in that way. I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.”

Thinking Way Father Lines Growing Up Growing Generations Taught Son Doctors Sensitive Genes Coal Miners Either Or Coal Miners

Author:Rosanne Cash

“I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.”

Kind Self My Own Style Taught Paint Oil Landscape Portraits Self Taught

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.”

Thinking Stills Hard Parent Taught Hard Work Optimism

Author:Samuel Alito

“I know from my own experience as a parent that parents probably teach most powerfully not through their words but through their deeds. And my parents taught me through the stories of their lives. And I don't take any credit for the things that they did or the things that they experienced, but they made a great impression on me.”

Knows Made Stories Parent My Own Teach Taught Deeds Credit Impression Most Powerful

Author:Samuel Alito

“In my class was an Annapolis graduate, several engineers, and most recent president of the University of Alabama.These were all small-town people who had good values. The families were tight. The schools reaffirmed the families and reaffirmed the church values that you were taught. I guess it was just one of those swell times to be a part of.”

People School Values President Church Class Taught Towns University Just One Graduates Engineers Small Town Alabama Good Values Annapolis

Author:Jeff Sessions

“I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy...”

Knows Years Three Comedy Taught Balls Three Years Physical Comedy

Author:Garry Marshall

“It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.”

People Writing Fun Parent Known Taught Memoir Interviews

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].”

Looks Real School Political Used Class Rights Taught Hero Civil Rights Sat Parks Activist Citizenship Look At Me Literacy Rosa Montgomery Real Heroes Political Education

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“I truly believe that many of the fears we have are unnecessary. It is something we've been taught. It has been programmed into us. It's just a habitual thinking pattern, and it can be changed.”

Thinking Believe Has Beens Changed Taught Patterns Unnecessary Habitual

Author:Louise Hay

“I love to watch my daughter. At twenty-two months, that little soul is developing at a rate I will never understand. She's kind of taught me that growth and expansion are a person's natural state and inclination.”

Kind Littles Persons Two Soul States Growth Natural Watches Taught Months Daughter Twenties Rate Developing My Daughter Expansion Inclination Two Months Twenty Two

Author:Daniel Gillies

“We are taught to want a thing. We are taught that having that thing will make us happy. We are taught that having it immediately is the answer. We are taught a corrupted version of success. And love.”

Want Answers Taught And Love Versions

Author:Daniel Gillies

“We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.”

Moments Difficult Taught Hardship Beaten Anvils

Author:Daniel Gillies

“I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.”

Self Taught Musician Picks Instruments Noise Ems Restriction Self Taught

Author:Adrian Grenier

“Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day - the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.”

“The code that most prisoners live by is an extension of the masculine roles they were taught growing up, how they were conditioned about what it means to be a man: you've got to be strong, you've got to be tough, you've got to be in charge.”

Men Mean Strong Roles Growing Up Growing Taught Tough Code Live By Prisoner Extensions Masculine Be A Man

Author:James Fox

“When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races, you can get taught a painful lesson. And there are inmates with a level of consciousness who feel it's their duty to enforce this segregation.”

Ifs Feels Levels Race Consciousness Taught Duty Lessons Painful Prisoner Yards Segregation Inmates

Author:James Fox

“I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.'”

Pain Taught Extremes Recovery Extreme Pain

Author:Mike Ness

“I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point I was teaching more of the Sivananda system and just pushing it up a little bit to make it a little more rajasic a little more active, a little more physical. People would come, and feel great, and by the time I left Colorado in 1980 I'd taught pretty much everyone in town - the ski patrol, ski instructors, the bar owners.”

People Feels Littles Left Bits Teaching Taught Little Bit Yoga Towns Winter Active Bars Parks Owners Pushing Skis Colorado Instructors Skiers Pushing It

Author:Beryl Bender Birch

“My grandmother taught me two very important lessons before she passed: hold the door for everyone and always say "thank you." That means to treat everyone the same, no matter if it is the President or a homeless mother begging for food. And never forget to thank those who have helped you, whether it is the person serving you food at a restaurant or your third-grade teacher who taught you the multiplication tables.”

“My trainer taught me, because he's Iranian, and that's a beautiful snack [pistachios]. I have some with me, actually, in my bag. You could eat that on a plane instead of the salted nuts. And a serving size a day is the size of your hand, not the size of your head!”

Hands Beautiful Taught Size Planes Bags Serving Nuts Trainers Iranian Snacks Pistachios

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“The earliest issue I can remember going through was body image issues. I was a chubby little kid and I got made fun of for it. I dealt with horrible, horrible self esteem issues, and I still struggle with that. I think it's what taught me a lot of empathy and compassion, though, but there are those days where I look in the mirror and I still see twelve year old fat Sara.”

“I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I always trust my parents. They have great values.”

Way Believe Certain Values Parent Taught Behave Great Value

Author:Usain Bolt

“We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us.”

Choices Issues Environment Taught Habit Draws Blame Luck Surround Genes Health Issues Daily Habits

Author:Kris Carr

“One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.”

Trying Taught Planes Thich Nhat Hanh

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“In 2012, I was diagnosed with melanoma - skin cancer - and had to get surgery on my left foot. I was out for four weeks - no dancing, no walking, nothing! It was horrible, but it taught me patience and to never take for granted the simple things we have.”

Left Simple Four Week Feet Taught Walking Skins Dancing Cancer Horrible Granted Surgery Simple Things Skin Cancer Never Take For Granted

Author:Witney Carson

“My family especially has always taught me to be myself and not let other people's opinions change me. To always believe my instincts and follow my heart.”

People Believe Heart Opinion Taught My Heart My Family Instinct Always Believe

Author:Witney Carson

“My mother [actress Tanuja] has taught me that. It's 100 percent home or 100 percent work - I give complete attention to both. That's because I understand that work is not my life, and my life is not just work.”

Giving Home Life Is Mother Attention Taught Percent Actresses

Author:Kajol

“Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.”

People Different Belief Teaching Taught Buddhism Circumstances Absolutes Creator Different Peoples Negation

Author:Dalai Lama

“For me, that's where my spiritual practice comes in. It's come from a lot of people that I've met that have influenced me over the years, and it's remembering those people, what they taught me.”

People Years Remember Spiritual Practice Taught Mets Spiritual Practice

Author:Trevor Hall

“The greatest motivator and leveler in my life has been my yoga practice. It has taught me how to be a grown-up, follow through, give back, be compassionate, be a better mother, wife, daughter, sibling, friend, and just show up.”

Giving Has Beens Shows Mother Practice Wife Taught Daughter Yoga Compassionate Giving Back Sibling Yoga Practice Follow Through

Author:Emily Carpenter

“When I retired from the championships in 2012, I had finished in fourth place in the international division, second place in nationals, and first in our state three years in a row. This journey not only helped me overcome my fears, it taught me discipline and perseverance. The biggest medals were the friendships that I still enjoy today.”

“Yoga is really big - I'm actually a certified teacher, although I've never taught classes at a studio. I really find myself drawn to more traditional styles.”

Bigs Class Teacher Style Taught Yoga Studios Traditional

Author:Stephanie Ellis

“I come from a family of conservation activists, and so I've had a strong connection to nature all my life. My father has been a leader within the movement for over thirty years and has taught most of what I know about environmental conservation. While he would always take me hiking, camping, and rafting, he also taught me that the spiritual value of the outdoors alone is not enough to save nature against economic interests.”

“When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.”

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Author:Erykah Badu

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