#trained

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#domestic #firmness #kindness #male #most

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#choose #classically #done #dramatic #films

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve. ↗

— Dick Fosbury

#athlete #even #evolve #i #imagined

Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that. ↗

— Al Franken

#any #bad #bad habits #balanced #been

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#anger #because #been #cut #face

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#before #critic #critics #i #i remember

There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it. ↗

— Laura San Giacomo

#been #deal #doing #easy #education

I really feel that if it wasn't for the accident, I'd still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters. I would have made sure that the doctors would have declared me physically sound; and after that, I would have trained. ↗

— Roberto Duran

#after #declared #doctors #feel #fighters

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#chance #city #even #everything #got

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#after #dared #every #far #i