#lesson

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

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I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent. ↗

— Maria Grazia Cucinotta

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The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

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Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

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It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either. ↗

— Lynn Davies

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The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person. ↗

— Loretta Devine

#heterosexual #homosexual #important #lesson #life

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. ↗

— Jessica Lange

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