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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Lesson Quotes

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

– Huey Newton

When the student is ready… the lesson appears.

– Gene Oliver

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

– Gunter Grass

This taught me a lesson, but I’m not quite sure what it is.

– John McEnroe

There’s no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn’t a right but a privilege.

– Jesse Ventura

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

– James Comey

It’s a life lesson they need to have, a skill everybody needs – to cook.

– Guy Fieri

Oh, I’ll tell you about ‘Anyone Can Whistle’ – the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do.

– Jane Krakowski

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it’s The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

– Jack Nicklaus

For consumers, the lesson is simple: Genetically modified foods are safe to eat.

– Cass Sunstein

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

– J. William Fulbright

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

– Al-Waleed bin Talal

Learning to appreciate those things that aren’t related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

– Chet Faker

The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.

– Andrew Ross Sorkin

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered… This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

– Ariel Sharon

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

– Angela Kinsey

One lesson is that if you want to predict voter turnout, you should ask whether at least one candidate is attracting high levels of enthusiasm – not whether the stakes are high, or even perceived to be high. That fits the historical pattern.

– Cass Sunstein

Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don’t alienate the legislature on Day 1.

– Andrew Cuomo

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur’an was the message of unity and peace.

– Cat Stevens

Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you’re going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don’t go to the cinema for a maths lesson.

– Billy Beane

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

– Barbara De Angelis

There’s no problem on the planet that can’t be solved without violence. That’s the lesson of the civil rights movement.

– Andrew Young

I know I should have never got into politics. And I’ve learned my lesson. No more politics.

– Amitabh Bachchan

Happiness is fleeting – I think that’s the main lesson I have learned.

– Cate Blanchett

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that’s a hard lesson of reality.

– Donna Tartt

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

– Goldie Hawn

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

– George Clooney

I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.

– Michael Ovitz

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

– George H. W. Bush

Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

– Edward Bach

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