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When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew. — Kylie Minogue

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group — Peggy McIntosh

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. — George Burns

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings. — Jeremy Renner

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore. — Julie Chen

I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD. — Deborah Smith

I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase. — Sally Kirkland

I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not. — Irena Sendler

I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught. — Edward Ruscha

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5. — Chuck Zito

Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me. — Kate Winslet

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write. — Atul Gawande

My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style. — Jack Kirby

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. — Tobias Wolff

I've always been pretty confident. I grew up in a family of strong women, so I was always taught to be proud of who I am, the way I am. — Sofia Vergara

I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning. — Jorge Posada

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better. — Derek Jeter

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about. — Mos Def

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense. — Rhys Ifans

I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith. — Ken Ham

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy? — Kathleen Norris

I put down the stack of pages and turned around to face him directly, just as he'd always taught me to do once I realized I was in for a fight. — Joe Schreiber

My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way. — David LaChapelle

I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver ... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl. — Danica Patrick

It was books that taught me that perhaps I was not alone. — Cassandra Clare

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils. — Park Chan-wook

I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers. — Anne Heche

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate. — Nick Mason

One idea I taught was the importance of regaining presence and clarity of mind after making a serious error. — Josh Waitzkin

I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others. — Nicole Kidman

I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life. — Marcelo Balboa

I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must admit, and I've worked hard. — Linda Lael Miller

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time. — Emma Donoghue

I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia. — Olivia Culpo

When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom. — Kirk Franklin

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. — Clay Aiken

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now. — Yao Ming

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. — Sydney Pollack

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe. — Whitney Houston

I was taught that I cannot back down to anything. I was trained never to be scared. — Ray Rice

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading. — Malcolm Gladwell

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. — Marie Curie

I try to shed what I've learned,
I try to forget the way I was taught to remember — Fernando Pessoa

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places. — Maya Angelou

I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself. — Zendaya

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him. — Frederick Sanger

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman. — Shelley Duvall

I was taught that pain is bad. — Keith Miller

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward. — Doug Collins

I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are taught geography. — Ayshay

What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution. — George Lois

I'd never met anyone like him before. Every rule I'd ever learned, he was breaking; everything I'd been taught to hide away, he announced it out loud. — Abigail Haas

My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win. — Larry Bird

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six. — Simon Newcomb

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool. — Kevin Mitnick

I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that's what I do every day on 'The View.' — Sherri Shepherd

I was always a killer. It was my skill, and they'd taught me well. She taught me love. — Charles Todd

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself. — Alan Moore

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer. — Alice Oswald

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business. — Stephen Ambrose

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised. — Ruth Hurmence Green

My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing. — Sarah Shahi

I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital. — Leontyne Price

I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught. — Rabih Alameddine

I have always been motivated by a greater good. As a child, I was taught by my parents to be good and to do good at all times and in all ways! — James May

It's not that I'm apolitical ... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add. — Susan Isaacs

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. — Camille Paglia

I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters. — Gerald Chertavian

I was always taught my do's and don'ts:
For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't. — GZA

I told myself that I was the one pretending to fit in, but life has taught me that we are all pretenders. Every single one of us. — Tarryn Fisher

Was interesting." "Is that what your ma says to say when you don't like something?" She smiles a bit. "I taught her that." "Is she dying by now? — Emma Donoghue

I like to hit it downhill, that's the way I was taught to run. — Jamal Lewis

From a child I was taught to forgive and forget, but it's difficult to forget these things, the loss of parents, of children and grandchildren. — Ann Leckie

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well. — Jonathan Krohn

When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China. — Alex Chiu

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. — Hugh Laurie

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.' — Dick Gregory

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight. — Haley Reinhart

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son! — Jerry Reed

I was taught how to walk but I did not master the cheating steps of others. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left. — Victoria Chang

I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong. — Moby

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet. — Ashwin Sanghi

He taught me who I was, something I would never have known, without his deft Handling of my personality — Tarryn Fisher

I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?' — Heather Graham

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker. — Lisa Ling

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic. — Christopher Gorham

If you're taught you can't do anything you won't do anything, I was taught I could do everything — Kanye West

I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car. — Mary Sue Terry

I try to understand faith and religion. I was raised by wonderful Catholic parents who were deeply faithful and taught us that God is a God of love. — Roxane Gay

I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught. — Katheryn Winnick

I was taught very well. My mom raised me very well, and so did my dad. I've been very blessed to have great parents that cared about me. — Justin Bieber

Fashion was my teacher.It taught me how to live.
When I see clothes I want to become worthy of them. — Novala Takemoto

I believe if every K-12 kid or college student was taught math with Mathematica far more of them would becomes scientists and engineers. — Anonymous

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality. — Lenny Kravitz

Mainly what I learned from Buddy ... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it. — Waylon Jennings

They taught me longing - Sehnsucht; made me for good or ill, and before I was six years old, a votary of the Blue Flower. — Alister E. McGrath

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time. — Linda Sunshine

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school. — Kevin Mitnick

I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre. — Tobias Segal