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I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.
~ Gene Kelly
We've got enough issues in this country without worrying about some of the things we're worrying about. It's unbelievable to me. And as long as I'm alive, I know what football gave me. It taught me my work ethic. It gave me a sense of discipline.
~ Jon Gruden
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
Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.
~ George Edward Woodberry
Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
~ Hermann Hesse
Experience had taught her that an enthusiastic officer was a bad thing; an enthusiastic idiot in a captain's uniform was a
~ Tanya Huff
And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing "I just want to be loved," cursing the earth and everything I have been taught:
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Vor laughed, proud of his place here. He quoted what he'd been taught all his life. "I am the pinnacle of humanity—a trustee of Omnius, the son of General Agamemnon.
~ Brian Herbert
The robot ship and the plague capsule waited there, intact, symbolic reminders of the horrific machine tyranny … which few people alive could remember. But they knew what they had been taught, and they knew what to hate.
~ Brian Herbert
I've always trusted my natural instinct because nobody ever taught me how to be on the radio or produce a show, and I never went to broadcasting school or anything like that.
~ Angie Martinez
In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.
~ H. L. Balcomb
I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.
~ Julia Holter
I was always a killer. It was my skill, and they'd taught me well. She taught me love.
~ Charles Todd
Booker cut her off. "Scientifically there's no such thing as race, Bride, so racism without race is a choice. Taught, of course, by those who need it, but still a choice. Folks who practice it would be nothing without it.
~ Toni Morrison
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
~ Edmund Spenser
Isabelle sipped the brandy. Experience had taught
~ Kristin Hannah
Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
~ Edmund Waller
Hating . . . not him exactly, but the idea of him, or the idea of people like him -- and though he has been taught to not believe in the sameness of all such persons, a logic as inborn as the structure of his DNA connect each and every one of them. . .
~ Greg Hrbek
At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.
~ Markus Wolf
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
~ Oscar Wilde
I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.
~ Ellsworth Kelly