#lesson

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

#friends #friendship #life-lessons #waiting #death

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

— Maria Grazia Cucinotta

#acting #get #i #lessons #rid

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

#business #did #glad #how #i

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

— Andrew Cuomo

#day #legislature #lesson

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

#anything #because #i #i do #lessons

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help. ↗

— Kerri Walsh

#being #best #challenging #first #help

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#life-lessons #past #inspirational

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. ↗

— Al Franken

#being #being human #fatal #hard #hard way

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#every #felt #grand #had #i

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been. ↗

— Al Lewis

#because #been #class #creative #down