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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed. ↗

— Michael Chang

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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

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I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double. ↗

— Jet Li

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I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone. ↗

— Adriana Lima

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As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

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I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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I have learned how to better handle things as they come. ↗

— Victoria Azarenka

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I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

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