As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
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AARON SORKIN People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are... COLIN KAEPERNICK But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn't really seem the stuff of &... DAVID HEYMAN Corporate America doesn't really have an interest in Formula One because there is nothing Americ... ALEXANDER ROSSI What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life... KATE WINSLET Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture... MICHAEL LEWIS The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn'... RICHARD P. FEYNMAN What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time. GARY LINEKER The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t... THOMAS SOWELL Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ... HARPER LEE I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that... DANA SPIOTTA I don't just rely on my right hand when I'm in the ring. That's the least thing I think ... DEONTAY WILDER Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me a... IRA SACHS All models have faults - that doesn't mean you can't use them as tools for making decisions. MYRON SCHOLES This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't ... SHARON STONE The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down step... ROGER MOORE I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, ... ALICE MUNRO Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult... JEFF WEINER One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black... HENRY LOUIS GATES The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be r... DAN RATHER Any type of animation, it could be really super crude or very sophisticated, it doesn't mean any... HENRY SELICK The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that reme... GARY WOLF Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You... DENNIS MUREN I want to make 'Broadway' a word that doesn't have pejorative connotation. I don't w... THOMAS KAIL The one thing that I'm always gonna promote is, 'Don't look at a fellow black man as an ... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you... KHALED HOSSEINI It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a ... YOLANDI VISSER You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you c... MICHAEL LEE-CHIN One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some thin... JOHN BYTHEWAY I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It ... KEN CAMINITI Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen th... JIMI HENDRIX Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere morta... ICE CUBE As much as one would like to think that what China does doesn't matter, the reality is that when... WILLIAM MOUGAYAR The Internet is the Wild West of the world, where anybody can throw anything down. Everything can be... JAMES BAY What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is ... TUPAC SHAKUR This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize th... STEVIE WONDER But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment. DUNCAN SHEIK Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Ver... CESAR MILLAN I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy sayin... MARILYN MANSON Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Lif... CHARLYNE YI I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else w... BLAIR UNDERWOOD
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LAURA SCHLESSINGER I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When ... LAURA ROBSON I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to... LAURA ROBSON I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way to... LAURA ROBSON If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to f... LAURA ROBSON I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with fre... LAURA ROBSON Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all. LAURA ROBSON If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis tha... LAURA ROBSON I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Mi... LAURA ROBSON There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often. LAURA ROBSON Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. LAURA RIDING If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer yo... LAURA RIDING I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad ma... LAURA RIDING Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which... LAURA RIDING The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The... LAURA RIDING I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I kn... LAURA RIDING I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thi... LAURA RIDING To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar... LAURA RIDING Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for... LAURA RIDING We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of our... LAURA RIDING I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic c... LAURA RICKETTS My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian wome... LAURA RICKETTS Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of a... LAURA RICKETTS I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ... LAURA RICKETTS When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parent... LAURA RICKETTS We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay. LAURA RICKETTS I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I... LAURA RAMSEY I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different. LAURA RAMSEY The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really. LAURA RAMSEY When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much k... LAURA RAMSEY You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one. LAURA PREPON Free love sounds great. LAURA PREPON I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belon... LAURA PREPON