#lear

I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest. ↗

— Anna Kournikova

#amazed #ask #bonds #commercial #did

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. ↗

— Robert Trout

#british empire #british press #defeats #empire #forgets

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#ads #anyone #applications #book #children

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#believe #election #everything #father #home

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#election #home #i #i believe #interesting

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#career #early #i #learned #lot

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#alert #american #attack #been #blessing

With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#arms #clear #decisive #defend #made

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#did #earned #father #find #hard

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#anything #could #had #hanging #him