#earned

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again. ↗

— Matt Damon

#i #learned #never #piano #play

I never learned from a man who agreed with me. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#i #learned #man #me #never

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#better #come #deeper #i #learned

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history. ↗

— Dave Foley

#american history #books #canadian #history #history books

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. ↗

— Wilhelm Frick

#been #carried #duties #dutiful #duty

From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed. ↗

— Bill Frist

#always #america #character #creed #did

There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy. ↗

— Kirk Gibson

#because #business #came #certain #demeanor

All that I know I learned after I was thirty. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#after #i #know #learned #thirty

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#biggest #books #closest #coincidence #countries

I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#about #accomplish #all day #band #classes