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And a lesson in this movie is dig beneath the surface. And so with my words, with my character, I purposely created a character that was away from how you've known me thus far in my career.
Shemar Moore
Character
Me
You
Words
Lesson
Dig
Beneath
Purposely
Thus
Known
How
Surface
Movie
Far
Created
Away
Career
Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'
Simon Cowell
Time
Job
Thought
Chemistry
Lesson
Every
Every Time
Involves
Am
Doing
Want
Burner
Sat
Ever
During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world.
Simon Hoggart
Teacher
Me
World
Desperate
Year
Own
Young
Lesson
Other
Though
About
Invaluable
My Own
Qualifications
Until
Learned
Around
Uganda
Were
Hear
Lousy
Taught
Children
Wanted
Realised
Persons
Ignored
Even
Gap
Largely
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
Slavoj Zizek
Sad
Blessing
Socialism
Disguise
Myth
Pessimist
Lesson
Think
Saved
Intervene
Intervention
Bit
Would
Some
More
Democratic
Were
Been
Very
Authentic
What If
Soviet
Soviets
Little
Little Bit
Flowering
Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Failure
Military
Lesson
Incremental
Dangers
Recognized
Students
Leaders
Insurgency
Condemned
Were
Historical
Trailing
Escalation
Many
Whom
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.
Stephen Kinzer
Rights
Value
Lesson
Human Rights
Prolong
Darfur
Learned
Western
Human
Them
Working
Wars
Groups
Rebels
And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.
Steve Case
Game
World
Build
Lesson
Market
Machines
Focusing
Distribution
About
Consumer
Instead
New
Learned
Because
Very
Brand
Get
Did
Expensive
Where
Video
Video Game
Forth
Product
Hard
Hard Lesson
Company
Start
Bringing
For almost 20 years, I've reported on some amazing feats of athleticism for ESPN. But the one thing that stood out, game after game, is that it takes a team to win. When I got cancer, that lesson got personal. And Team Livestrong became my team.
Stuart Scott
Game
Win
Amazing
Cancer
Lesson
Out
One Thing
Some
Feats
Takes
Almost
Became
Got
Years
Reported
Personal
ESPN
Stood
The One Thing
After
Team
Thing
Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.
Summer Sanders
Daily
Learning
Matters
Lesson
Kid
Minutes
Weeks
Hour
Couple
Practicing
Repetition
Swim
The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you're dealing with tides and currents - factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for 'constant eyes on,' and it's something I never forget.
Summer Sanders
Family
You
Respect
Eyes
Water
First
Ocean
Control
Lesson
Back
Kids
Constant
About
Something
Factors
Never
Never Forget
Beyond
Tides
Dealing
Got
Forget
Currents
Turn
CEO
Your
Stands
The important lesson for the children was that they know if there is a problem, they can tell us, we can talk about it, and we can resolve it. That's what families do. You face things, and you deal with them, and you move on together.
Tana Ramsay
You
Together
Problem
Face
Important
Move On
Lesson
Resolve
Tell
About
Know
Talk
Important Lesson
Deal
Families
Move
Children
Them
Us
Things
I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.
Taye Diggs
Myself
Me
Mother
Differences
Lesson
Gave
Others
Despite
Embracing
About
More
Like
Look
Said
Friends
Wanting
Loving
Them
Then
Less
I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around. My dad taught me to play drums for 'Love Actually,' and I still play drums now. But I'm not a 'drummer.' I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Love
Music
Me
Guitar
Guitarist
Lesson
Bass
Bassist
Bit
Guitars
Never
Had
Drummer
Drums
Instrument
Non-Existent
Around
Always
Still
Been
Trying
Any
Taught
Theory
Dad
Now
Play
Play Drums
Actually
When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Intelligence
Thought
Breath
Lesson
Seems
Takes
Grammar
Away
In a global world, nationalism is a fantasy, and it's poison. It used to be appropriate, but it's not anymore, and we haven't learned that lesson yet.
Tim Minchin
World
Poison
Nationalism
Lesson
Appropriate
Global
Learned
Anymore
Fantasy
Used
The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.
Tim Rice
Life
Failure
My Life
Lesson
Had
Biggest
Biggest Lesson
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.
Timothy Geithner
Risks
Money
Financial
Wait
Long
Lesson
Too
Spending
Financial Crises
Crises
More
Tend
Economy
Underestimate
Causing
Ultimately
Governments
End
Up
Gets
Want
Little
Them
Much
Away
Basic
Damage
The stories in 'Jim the Boy' are either made up or appropriated from some source other than my family. But the idea of a family telling stories to the kid, often to impart some kind of lesson, that's very familiar, and that's the way that I grew up.
Tony Earley
Family
Made
Lesson
Other
Jim
Way
Kid
Kind
Telling
Some
Impart
Idea
Boy
Source
Up
Very
Familiar
Than
Often
Grew
Stories
Either
I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a pretty good technique on the guitar and allowed me to find different ways to do things.
Trevor Rabin
Myself
Good
Me
Guitar
Lesson
Books
Ways
Find
Pretty
Pretty Good
Piano
Never
Had
Allowed
Exercise
Led
Taught
Different
Which
Different Ways
Actually
Technique
Things
I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.
Trey Songz
Work
Hard Work
Me
You
Pride
Pay
Lesson
Every
Every Step
Way
Take
Step
Instantly
Understand
Off
Very
Gradually
Taught
Grew
Working
Hard
Career
Need
The music industry really has to learn a lesson from the tech industry about what scale means at the end of the day and learning how to monetize.
Troy Carter
Music
Day
Learning
End Of The Day
Lesson
Music Industry
Scale
About
Industry
Learn
How
End
Really
Means
Tech
Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
Victoria Clark
Life
Work
Me
My Life
Whatever
Lesson
Projects
Somehow
Life Lesson
Point
Through
Any
Going
Just
Help
Appear
In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.
Vladimir Putin
Made
Long
Lesson
State
Run
See
Totally
Cost
Absolute
Long Run
Nobody
Economy
Sure
Am
Dearly
Repeated
Role
Soviet
Soviet Union
Wants
Century
Us
Union
When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.
W. Bruce Cameron
Time
School
Face
Long
Long Time
Lost
Sit
Whatever
Lesson
Would
About
Through
Come
Subject
Dumbest
Grade
Grade School
Listen
Just
Door
Decided
Them
Teachers
Expression
Thing
The women at all levels of the entertainment industry - from interns to Oscar winners - who kept quiet to protect their careers should be a lesson to every CEO and HR department.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Entertainment
Women
Lesson
Every
Entertainment Industry
Winners
Protect
Industry
Quiet
Department
CEO
Should
Who
Levels
Oscar
Kept
Careers
I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.
William Kempe
You
Heart
Lesson
Until
Learned
Deal
Pin
Done
Anything
Your
Hard
Hard Lesson
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