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  • Hope Davis on learning

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    “I’ve seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It’s such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.” -Hope Davis

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  • James Weldon Johnson on learning

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    “The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.” -James Weldon Johnson

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  • John Morley on learning

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    “They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.” -John Morley

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  • Lee Westwood on learning

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    “People mature at different stages and I feel I’m learning a lot.” -Lee Westwood

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  • Lucy Hale on learning

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    “I’d love to go to fashion week! I’m learning more about designers, thanks to ‘Pretty Little Liars” costume designer, Mandi Line.” -Lucy Hale

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  • Daniel Greenberg on learning

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    “But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own – we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.” -Daniel Greenberg

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  • Bill Sienkiewicz on learning

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    “That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.” -Bill Sienkiewicz

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  • Freida Pinto on learning

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    “I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I’m always open to learning everybody’s style – the director, the actor I’m working with.” -Freida Pinto

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  • Eli Wallach on learning

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    “One thing changes every evening: It’s the audience, and I’m working my magic. I’m always learning from it.” -Eli Wallach

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  • Johnny Winter on learning

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    “I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.” -Johnny Winter

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  • Paul Prudhomme on learning

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    “I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn’t all start just a few years ago!” -Paul Prudhomme

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  • Laura Bush on learning

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    “A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.” -Laura Bush

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  • Kate Bosworth on learning

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    “Acting is a life experience. I’m always learning things when I’m making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.” -Kate Bosworth

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  • John Sexton on learning

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    “Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.” -John Sexton

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  • Beck on learning

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    “Every time you go in, it’s like starting over. You don’t know how you did the other records. You’re learning all over. It’s some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.” -Beck

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  • Edward Sapir on learning

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    “It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.” -Edward Sapir

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  • Donna Tartt on learning

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    “The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they’re learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.” -Donna Tartt

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  • John Naisbitt on learning

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    “In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.” -John Naisbitt

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  • Felicity Jones on learning

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    “I’m interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it’s difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I’m learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.” -Felicity Jones

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  • Debbie Stabenow on learning

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    “Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.” -Debbie Stabenow

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  • Jean-Bertrand Aristide on learning

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    “Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.” -Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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  • Edsger Dijkstra on learning

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    “Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.” -Edsger Dijkstra

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  • Christina Hendricks on learning

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    “I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, ‘Oh, I’m running around town and people are taking my picture’, while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.” -Christina Hendricks

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  • Michael Fassbender on learning

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    “As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn’t really matter.” -Michael Fassbender

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  • Mark Hyman on learning

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    “Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it’s no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.” -Mark Hyman

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