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My fear of anger taught me nothing.
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My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
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My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open, because you never know what's going to come your way.
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My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
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My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.
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My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.
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My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
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My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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