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I need to keep my ad-libbing skills honed and make sure I'm able to banter with people and treat topics a bit more light-heartedly. But as a stand-up, first and foremost, my job is to make sure that I can write the routine that hopefully people will talk about when something big happens. Jon Richardson

Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions. Jonathan Kozol

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I was a fan of jujitsu, so that pretty much got me started in fighting. I won a lot of local competitions when I was young and eventually won a ticket to go compete in Rio de Janeiro. In Rio, I struggled a lot in the beginning, living in the gym and not having much to eat, but eventually I joined the Nova Uniao Team and really improved my skills. Jose Aldo

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In a world that places a growing premium on social skills, education systems need to do much better at fostering those skills systematically across the school curriculum. Jose Angel Gurria

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The special skills necessary for being a storyteller are really very simple. I actually talked about them in a book of mine called 'Tell Me a Tale.' Those basic skills are to listen, to observe, to remember, and to share. Joseph Bruchac

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Comedy Takes Very Skills Specific Technique

There are good life skills to be had in the sport. It is a big positive to see young kids coming to the gym, training hard, looking up to the likes of David Tua, Shane Cameron, and possibly myself. Joseph Parker

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What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity. Joshua Foer

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For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can't showcase in Aaron Sorkin's work. Joshua Malina

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And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no. Josie Maran

For me, good football is not about how many skills you show or how many players you beat. It's about making the right decision every time you have the ball. Juan Mata

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John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else. Judy Johnson

I always wanted to run a major label, and I feel like I got the skills to do that. The one thing about me is that I won't sit behind a desk the whole time - I'll go to the clubs and see what's hot. Juicy J

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Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time. Julie Bishop

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What's the greatest advice I give? Develop excellent communication skills. Julie Sweet

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Digital fluency is about basic skills. Julie Sweet

Digital Fluency About Skills Basic

I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills. Justin Long

I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary. Justin Trudeau

You can't say that I don't have the skills. You can't say that. I have the skills. Kamaru Usman

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I have no skills. I'm bad at most things. Kate McKinnon

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No longer do companies study consumers' psyches only by asking people what they think about technology and how they use it. Now they conduct observational research, dispatching anthropologists to employ their ethnographic skills by interviewing, watching and videotaping consumers in their natural habitats. Katie Hafner

With federal recognition, the Lumbee Tribe would become a full player in Indian country, no longer second class Indians in the eyes of the federal government. As such, we would employ our substantial skills and abilities to help correct problems faced by Indian country and make significant contributions. Kelvin Sampson

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