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Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.

An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.

For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing.

I don't want to do anything in bad taste.

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.

I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.

The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.

We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them.

Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six months to learn how to tap,' I'd practice till I was blue in the face. I would do it because I'm so headstrong and think I can do anything. But just to show up and sing a little ditty, no.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.