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I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.
Patti LaBelle

Happy, Appreciate, Downs

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.
Marlo Thomas

Words, Pretty, Speak

Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.
Junior Seau

Family, Dad, Important

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.
Junior Seau

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
Polly Toynbee

Religion, Children, Between

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.
Ernest Istook

Home, Present, Students

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.
Ernest Istook

Today, Parents, Violence

Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.
Eric Ries

Success, Time, Good

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.
Kiana Tom

Sports, Parents, Play

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
Norman MacCaig

Poetry, Question, Second

I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
Lance Bass

Love, Hate, Christian

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Jacques Maritain

Love, Men, Worth

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
Luther Burbank

Happy, Forward, Simple

I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!
Paul Thomas Anderson

School, Important, Thinking

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.
Giorgio Armani

War, Everything, Glamorous

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
Karlie Kloss

Power, Movement, Ballet

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.
Mayer Hawthorne

My wife taught me the importance of living well.
Robert Mondavi

Wife, Living, Importance

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.
Thomas More

Woman, Books, Looks

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.
Arno Penzias

Learned, Far, Students

I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.
Mike Mills

Love, Work, Family

Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.
NeNe Leakes

Love, Starting, Celebrity

'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.
Janis Ian

Society, Important, Real

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.
Janis Ian

Music, Time, Humble

My mother taught me to read.
Fiona Shaw

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.
Arnold Palmer

Time, Father, Game

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
Chuck Jones

Once, Against, Value

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
Martin Sheen

Honesty, Play, Learned

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.
Susan Hampshire

Work, Teacher, Hard

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.
Robbie Coltrane

Smart, Five, Drop

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