Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.
S.E. Hinton
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all th... C. JOYBELL C. Growing up in Boston and dancing in the streets, you see a lot of things. DANNY WOOD The money is good, but the job is not always easy. It pulls a lot out of you when you hear things yo... MARGARET VAGA On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you. RAMON RODRIGUEZ If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong. DREW HOUSTON You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the... PIETRO ARETINO You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the... JAVAN You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the... TABITHA SUZUMA Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t... ANTONIA PERDU As a leader, you will see things you may never like to see; yours is to correct those things so that... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, yo... KHALED HOSSEINI You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the t... JOHNNY DEPP Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night... THE WONDER YEARS I remember a place... a town... a house like a lot of houses... a yard like a lot of other yards... ... THE WONDER YEARS I never knew it would be this hard to lose something I never had. THE WONDER YEARS Once upon a time there was a girl I knew, who lived across the street. Brown hair, brown eyes. When ... THE WONDER YEARS Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go. THE WONDER YEARS I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble.... THE WONDER YEARS All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners... THE WONDER YEARS Over the course of the average lifetime you meet a lot of people. Some of them stick with you throug... THE WONDER YEARS Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memo... THE WONDER YEARS But it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and... NORTON JUSTER To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong. ROY T. BENNETT You learn more when things go wrong. DAVID E. KELLEY Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether yo... C. JOYBELL C. You know the mine. Being on the mine rescue team gives you the chance to learn a lot of things about... JOSH LEWIS When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. JESSICA LANGE You can script exactly how you want the system to behave when things go wrong. JEFF BERNARD It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter b... DAVID BAILEY It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter,... DAVID BAILEY It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, ... DAVID BAILEY I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I d... TERRY FRANCONA It's great when you see things on a massive scale and you see these huge sets, but it's not ... ALFIE ALLEN Look, before I start, I just want to say to you - it just dawned on me - you are all my peers. I've ... RICHARD TAYLOR I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds o... KURT VONNEGUT I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds ... KURT VONNEGUT Learn to see things as they are; not as you are. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki... KURT VONNEGUT, JR. I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki... KURT VONNEGUT Living on the streets of London strips away your dignity, your identity − your everything, really.... JAMES BOWEN Life is a journey of discovery and growth where you can learn the things you need to know as you go ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Did I think he was “the one?” Iʼll never know. At sixteen, everyone is “the one. K.A. TUCKER I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki... KURT VONNEGUT I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, thing... MARILYN MONROE One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some thin... JOHN BYTHEWAY One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Sixteen Moons, Sixteen Years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my ... KAMI GARCIA Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all... TAMORA PIERCE I have a whole lot of other things I want to do in the next four years, but you know what? I am so e... BETSY GOTBAUM The Lord put me on television to do these things I want to do in the community. And He knew I had a ... MARLA GIBBS If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain. PAULO COELHO You see it every day on the news, ... It's not my family, but it's a lot of other families. You real... CRYSTAL HUNT This spin control stuff is not working when people are dying, ... You want to be supportive of the c... CAROL LEWIS I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ... HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi... CORY DOCTOROW The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies You can try and read it but you're gonna get it ... HENRY ROLLINS Entrepreneurs go through real problems and come up with real solutions. It's not fake. You can d... BEN HUH I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there... GEORGE WEAH If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. STEPHEN KING The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. HARRY S TRUMAN There have been a lot of problems on the board - things I didn't agree with and things they weren't ... LARRY HITE You can enjoy the music. It's very light, but you learn things. JEFF FATT We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'... DOROTHY FIELDS Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT I don't see you making it to the top; nobody's going to help you get there. You have to do it all on... NABIL N. JAMAL Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no a... CAMERON DIAZ He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books— a man ... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE It's all right. It helps rejuvenate you. But at the same time, you want to keep working on things. JEFF BUTTS Sometimes life likes playing tricks on people. Sometimes things can go very wrong and this can reall... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot ... HOWARD HAWKS Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought ... C. JOYBELL C. I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you... F. GARY GRAY There's nothing wrong with his arm. It's probably a combination of a lot of things, and the fact tha... WILLIE RANDOLPH When you haven't won, it isn't going to be a masterpiece when you try to get the thing back. We took... KEN HITCHCOCK Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical pers... KEVIN GATES Josephine caught my eye and gave me a signal we'd used for years to indicate that one of us had to l... LEMONY SNICKET Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU This is the time that counts -- you can really set yourself up. This is when you see teams start to ... DARREN MCCARTY Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusi... JODI PICOULT And all are asleep,so all are foolish. Don't feel offended. Thefacts have to be stated as they are.Y... OSHO One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to l... MALAIKA ARORA KHAN I think it's fun. You get to joke around with the teacher and talk to your friends. You learn a lot ... CHARLIE ROGERS Being a WWE performer and doing all the different things we get to do, it can wear on you, and you c... ROMAN REIGNS The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER You live and learn on these things. We want to handle them as little as possible, and next year, we ... CURT FREESE Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree. BILLY GIBBONS One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fea... VICTORIA OSTEEN The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can ch... YUL VAZQUEZ And remember, also, added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, that many places you would like to see are ju... NORTON JUSTER And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are ... NORTON JUSTER You don't want to waste talent by getting in trouble on the streets and messing your life away by do... BRANDON SILER
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