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I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.


Bernard Sumner

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LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I was a good student, but I didn't like school.
ASHLEY BENSON Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to lea...
MICHELLE OBAMA I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of...
DAN FARMER I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as...
SHAWN MENDES Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and lea...
DIMEBAG DARRELL I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in.
CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY I wish I didn't like sweets as much as I do. I wish I didn't get carried away sometimes.
JAMES CORDEN Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I ...
JESSIE MUELLER It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, r...
NAOMI CAMPBELL Most of my teachers didn't like me. I didn't get good grades because I pretty much lived at ...
TREVOR MOORE I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to Ne...
MANISH DAYAL I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I...
KRISTEN BELL I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar s...
SHANICE WILLIAMS I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'...
MICK MARS I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, ...
KAREN ROBARDS The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.
DR. DRE I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding ...
JOSEPH MAWLE I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.
DAVID SCHWIMMER At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camer...
PARMINDER NAGRA I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I...
ROMEO MILLER I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I fe...
DAKOTA JOHNSON I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I...
TOM FORD Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow....
LIL UZI VERT I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few busines...
HAMDI ULUKAYA I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
SHIRLEY BASSEY I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learnin...
HUEY NEWTON My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high sc...
NATE ROBINSON I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doi...
JAMES CORDEN No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to...
PARMINDER NAGRA I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like t...
RANDY TRAVIS I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'
NATHALIE EMMANUEL I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in wes...
OLESYA RULIN Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS I read 'The Rum Diary,' and I didn't really like it very much.
BRUCE ROBINSON I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn'...
DAVID RAKOFF With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my wa...
TAVI GEVINSON It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it&#...
SAMUEL BARNETT I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother ...
ROGER GOODELL I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and ...
CARLI LLOYD I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like th...
OCTAVIA SPENCER I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I ...
BILLY CHILDISH I could dunk a volleyball in high school. I didn't play football because I knew they were going ...
PRINCE FIELDER I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.
DANIEL S. LOEB I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
EDWIN MOSES I didn't really like being on television at all.
NATALIA KILLS I left Israel to work as a model, to just make money - I didn't care if I was doing an ad for to...
MORAN ATIAS School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I had to learn how to drive because I didn't drive in Toronto.
KEVIN MCDONALD I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think...
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CHRISTINE KEELER When I was 15, I didn't think I was the prettiest at all. But then something happened when I was...
CYNTHIA ERIVO I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a n...
ADAM RAPP I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at langua...
NATHALIE EMMANUEL Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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SHAWN MICHAELS I never met a stripe I didn't like.
EDGARDO OSORIO When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do an...
SHANLEY CASWELL As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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ALEXANDRA ROBBINS Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like the...
ALEX KINGSTON I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don&...
PAMELA ANDERSON I never thought I'd go on a show like 'The X Factor,' simply because I didn't have e...
ELLA HENDERSON I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high schoo...
TOM DOUGLAS I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I&#...
CHERYL COLE I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
NATALIE PORTMAN I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.
EDDIE MARSAN And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And i...
RACHEL TRUE I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn&#...
MIUCCIA PRADA I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But w...
PETE CARROLL I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'C...
MIRANDA COSGROVE In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn&...
FREDDIE PRINZE At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl ...
DEVON AOKI I didn't love school.
KIM KARDASHIAN I've always tried to avoid electronic music in India because whatever songs I got in the genre I...
ARIJIT SINGH I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.
CELIA IMRIE I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get a...
MAUREEN FORRESTER I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER I have never wanted to hide my freckles. I just didn't like the way I looked without them; it di...
CASSADEE POPE I feel like I can learn a lot at Western. And I'm ready to increase that learning curve.
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BERNARD INGHAM A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.
BERNARD MAGAZINE A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still the...
BERNARD BARUCH Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some servic...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
BERNARD BARUCH Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qu...
BERNARD BERENSON To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that ...
BERNARD EDMONDS Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
ST. BERNARD Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
ST. BERNARD Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
BERNARD MELTZER We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving
BERNARD MELTZER During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But ...
BERNARD BARUCH Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. E...
BERNARD BARUCH I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
BERNARD BARUCH There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
BERNARD WILLIAMS I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.
BERNARD GILPIN Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a ...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to re...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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