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Tag Name "Learnt" (270)

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Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade.
Anne Robinson
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When I was about 17, I had a row with my mother and left home for six months, renting a flat and working as a waitress for a while. I learnt you could double your earnings if you gave good, cheerful service. It taught me that in any job you can improve your lot.
Anne Robinson
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
V. S. Naipaul
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I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.
Ranveer Singh
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
Matthew Arnold
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Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
Fred Hoyle
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I know I trust people too much, although I try to be a bit firm, but it is a fault that we have learnt from my father.
Femi Kuti
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There are people who make a hobby of telling others what they can do and what they can't do. I've learnt to not listen to those people.
Omar Samra
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It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.
Amir Taheri
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The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.
Allegra Huston
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I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
Wayne Rooney
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From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.
Alicia Keys
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I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.
Tony Blair
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If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.
Alex Garland
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I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.
Jane Asher
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I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don’t waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities.
Alek Wek
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I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.
William Hague
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Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.
William Herschel
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As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.
Alberto Manguel
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The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over they are united by a secret bond.
Albert Schweitzer
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At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
Nicolas Cage
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And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.
Dylan Thomas
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Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up and try to blend in, because you see more. I've learnt that the principles of moving around a big city are the same everywhere only the people and streets are different.
Michael Urie
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My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.
Aga Khan III
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