I always loved Japanese movies. And they had an enormous impact in France - the Nouvelle Vague took so much from them. It taught us how the camera was placed in the centre of the action.
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
You rolled me once, you rolled me twice and the third time, you had taught to win the game.
Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.
I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open, because you never know what's going to come your way.
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.
While there are many that journey who seek, not all that travel will find, for they are bound by what they have been taught and not of what they know.” - The Tapestry of Spirit
Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught, such as looking out for himself and watching his tongue and not saying the wrong thing, the thing that might get him ...
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. The mind is an attribute of the individual. The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsio...
Break the glass, I thought to myself, because it is a symbolic gesture. Try to understand that within myself, things were breaking of much more importance than a glass, and I’m happy for that. Look to your own inner struggles and break this glass. ...
So it is with the places preparing to teach us. It's only when the heart begins to beat wildly and without pattern—when it begins to realize its boundlessness—that its newly adamant pulse bangs on the walls of its cage and is bruised by its enclo...
What we call life...is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. Every moment they are born and they die. 'When the A...
Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.
Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
Loss taught me the priceless value of friends. I would have lost it but for my friends.
