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JASON LUNDMARK I'd love to have the opportunity to do that, ... Obviously I'm going to be a rookie, so I'm going to...
SIDNEY CROSBY You can learn a whole lot in a short period of time from a guide, as long as he's explaining what he...
BRUCE YOUNG As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
TALISA SOTO You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that i...
KEN BURNS I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.
MIA WASIKOWSKA But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone ca...
EMMA WATSON You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is ...
RAVI ZACHARIAS If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn t...
AURORA To some people, it's as simple as a shorter ball. I can tell you from our research, it's a much more...
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RAJAT MOHAN Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
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DIMITRA EKMEKTSIS You can try to throw as much as you can on the backs of Louisianans, but I'm a witness as to what ha...
GENE TAYLOR You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the mag...
ARNOLD BENNETT What can you learn from a statue? You can learn to stay calm whatever happens!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
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MAUREEN JOHNSON It's about as mild as you can go. It's more of a face-saving measure.
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NICHOLAS BOOTHMAN Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
SOL HUROK The wise can learn from the foolish as the foolish can learn from the wise
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA We often learn as much if not more from stupidity as we do from genious.
IAN MACDONALD I think we changed about as much as you can possibly change, so there's a lot to learn.
WILL HERRING Don't be fool enough to think you can know a person's character after a few moments of observation. ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can...
REV. JOHN WELLESLY EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can...
REV. JOHN WELLESLY My dearest colleagues seem to become metamorphosed into snarling beasts if I as much as glance at th...
HARRY ELLIS DICKSON It's been great. I've been very lucky to work with more experienced actors early on in my career bec...
KATRINA KAIF You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to y...
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K'NAAN You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
FRANKLIN P. JONES You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has chosen not to accept it. They hav...
LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc...
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JIM EVANS A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
BRUCE LEE "A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
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AYN RAND Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more ...
NORMAN GEISLER We can borrow from lending agencies but not from individuals. The city will do as much paving next y...
DIANE CREWS If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you.
LYNN GOOD It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to gi...
MARC RICH You can learn things from a heart so bleeding
When love bargains with deceitful pleading
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MUNIA KHAN You can practice your grumpy face a million times, you can make a dog surf, you can explode in laugh...
LAURA BUSCHE Our number one mission is to get people into something safe, sanitary, private, and out of public sh...
BRAD GAIR One of the most important things I have found is that no one school of thought has all of the answer...
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LAPO ELKANN It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA It's one of those things, you can't escape it. You set your own boundaries and you say as much as yo...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to k...
WILL.I.AM It's not as much physical, I think, as it is emotional. You can get emotionally drained, but you can...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harv...
STEPHEN COVEY Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harv...
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SEBASTIAN JUNGER Frankly, if you can sell something at $80 a tonne that cost you $20 a tonne, you might want to sell ...
KERRY STOKES A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dicta...
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DANIEL EK Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous!
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MARILYN GILBERT I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.
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SHERRY ARGOV Now with as much parity as there is now if you gain a couple of key players and remain healthy you c...
DUSTY BAKER As a child you make mistakes. As an adult you learn from them.
RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
PAUL BROWN In marriage, sometimes you have to fight, just so you can learn more from each other.
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BUZZ ALDRIN You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 3...
WILLIAM HURT Because the girls don't make as many mistakes at zones, if you make more than one little error, it c...
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ANUJ SOMANY Learn from each one of your defeats; your losses must be as close to you as your victories.
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MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or c...
MALCOLM MCLAREN I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
MALCOLM MCLAREN I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that yo...
MALCOLM MCLAREN Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've ju...
MALCOLM MCLAREN I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some...
MALCOLM MCLAREN The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
MALCOLM MCLAREN Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
MALCOLM MCLAREN I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN Don't kill the golden goose.
MALCOLM MCLAREN Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn righ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may ch...
MALCOLM MCLAREN I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I love doing every role I do!
MALCOLM MCDOWELL You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limi...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL There are no great scripts - just great films.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there'...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just on...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, th...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherw...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconi...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are jus...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try ...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous inte...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL