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I am very open to learning. I am like a sponge: I'd like to soak up in new things, new skills.
Catriona Gray
Learning
New Things
Open
Sponge
New
Like
Am
Up
Very
New Skills
Soak
Skills
Things
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
Harry Houdini
Mouth
Holding
Purest
Sponge
Lips
May
Flames
Produced
Saturated
Gasoline
I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.
Jeremy Northam
Think
Emerge
Absorb
Sponge
Like
Without
Always
Being
Your
Aware
Things
Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you'll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat friends care less about their weight.
Vir Das
You
Yourself
People
Surround Yourself
Care
Starved
About
Habits
Weight
Sponge
Like
Surround
Up
Friends
Bunch
Soak
Less
Fat
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Aeschylus
Men
Picture
Painting
Misfortune
Sponge
Fair
Glitter
Like
Prosperous
Wet
Blow
Blurred
Lives
Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'
Alessia Cara
Love
Song
Ocean
Every
Think
Incredible
Everything
Frank
Says
Out
Would
Would-Be
He
Absorb
Puts
Sponge
Like
Why
I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'
Allison Janney
Today
Me
Sometimes
Out
Sponge
Like
Cry
House
Make
Because
Go
Going
Want
I think, sometimes, you can just get really burnt out on something you enjoy doing and feel like the sponge is completely wrung dry.
Andrea Riseborough
You
Sometimes
Enjoy
Think
Out
Something
Feel
Sponge
Like
Dry
Doing
Get
Just
Burnt
Really
I would say that I have an aspect of my personality which is that I have no personality. That's why I work as an agent. I have the assumed personality of the people I represent. I am like a sponge.
Andrew Wylie
Work
People
Personality
Assumed
Say
Would
Sponge
Like
Am
Represent
Which
Agent
Aspect
Why
I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
Anna Chancellor
Good
People
Cake
Recipes
Please
Find
Follow
Sponge
Make
Quite
Conventional
Cook
Hard
I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn't want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.
April Bloomfield
Work
Good
Progress
Birmingham
Some
Kitchen
Good Teachers
Had
Knew
Hotel
Sponge
Learn
Forever
Want
Wanted
Holiday
Teachers
Inn
Started
From what I've read, CM Punk is like a sponge when it comes to training.
Bill Goldberg
Training
Punk
Sponge
Like
Read
I think I was always a little sponge as a kid, and I was always looking for more information constantly.
Brie Larson
Looking
Think
Kid
Constantly
More
Sponge
Always
Information
Little
All I am doing every day is soaking in everything - I'm like a sponge, from all these award-winning directors, writers, and actors - as much as I can.
Cailee Spaeny
Day
Every Day
Every
Everything
Directors
Writers
Sponge
Like
Am
Doing
Soaking
Much
Actor
I am a sponge. I don't write things down.
Carlos Mencia
Down
Write
Sponge
Am
Things
I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, 'Where do I want to be?' but 'What do I want to learn from this?' Use that opportunity to be a sponge.
Caroline Ghosn
Opportunity
Job
First
Everyone
Would
Sponge
First Job
Learn
Encourage
Where
Want
Themselves
Ask
Use
Clearly, for an organization to move on, it is the job of the leader to be that sponge that takes the stress from inside and the outside.
Chanda Kochhar
Organization
Stress
Job
Leader
Move On
Inside
Outside
Takes
Clearly
Sponge
Move
At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the most wonderful sponge puddings, which I don't indulge in very often now.
David Blunkett
Food
Home
Wonderful
School
Brought
Had
Sponge
Indulge
Most
Up
Very
Revolting
Often
Which
Spam
Now
Sausages
If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic.
Douglas Carter Beane
Me
You
Sorry
Big
Way
Seeing
Sponge
Aesthetic
Going
Just
Influence
Copyright
Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.
Eminem
Saying
Day
Me
Internet
Sit
All Day
About
Sponge
Iowa
Read
Always
Been
Sam
Going
Certainly
You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
Feist
You
Enormous
Guess
Everything
Out
Songs
Sponge
Squeeze
Goes
Canvas
Them
Painter
I'm really open-minded, musically. The credo I ascribe to is, 'Take care of the music, and let the rest take care of itself.' Growing up, I was a sponge and soaked up everything I was exposed to.
Gerald Clayton
Music
Care
Rest
Everything
Musically
Take
Take Care
Open-Minded
Sponge
Up
Itself
Ascribe
Really
Exposed
Growing
Growing Up
I'm a very keen baker; I pride myself on my cakes. I go along the classic sponge line, but I like to jazz it up: I've made some psychedelic birthday cakes.
Greg Rutherford
Myself
Birthday
Pride
Made
Jazz
Classic
Some
Cakes
Sponge
Along
Like
Baker
Go
Line
Up
Very
Psychedelic
Keen
I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'What is your inspiration?' I could throw up. I mean, I'm inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I'm still here.
Iris Apfel
Morning
Eyes
People
Big
Think
Say
People Say
Fact
Inspiration
Could
Inspired
Throw
Absorb
Feel
Sharpen
Sponge
Like
Look
Learn
Always
Still
Lots
Up
Get
Mean
Your
Things
Here
I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start.
James Wolpert
Life
Time
People
My Life
Recording
Meeting
Musician
About
Recording Artist
Take
Tour
Takes
Sponge
Learn
Making
Go
Artist
Just
Want
Much
Things
Start
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
Janet Flanner
Every
Out
Weeks
Sponge
Up
Squeeze
Soak
Act
Ink
Two
Two Weeks
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