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We're still leading the way but the margins are narrowing and rival countries have learnt from us. I'm in it to win it and we're here to win and the gloves are off.

We are making another turn by creating these zones, hoping the message will be learnt and that the launching squads will be stopped, but if there will be no alternative will have to turn it again.

Three years after the invasion, this government has not learnt one lesson.

At the moment we're trying to keep what we've learnt. Because we learnt a terrific amount with 'Deep Purple In Rock,' it took six months to make that album: we think it paid off, really. I can honestly say that it's the first album we've been 100 percent satisfied with; it gave us a hell of a lot of confidence.

Confusion: You cannot speak of your achievements for you are conceited, yet you cannot speak of wrongs because you complain. We encourage you to learn, yet if you teach what you learnt you are not qualified. You may be ridiculed for never taking chances in life, but if you do you must be careful. You are allowed to smoke whilst complaining about pollution. We must protect refugees fleeing war, yet we are scorned for protecting them in their homeland.

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

Ben has been much maligned as far as his helicopters go but we've learnt to catch the ball side-on, so that's a bonus.

Every match has a lesson, and we certainly learnt a lot from this match. They put on a very good show.

I used to watch some of the reality shows about models, and then, weirdly, now I try to incorporate into my fashion shoots the skills I learnt from watching those shows. It's like, thanks Tyra, 'cause you've given me, like, all the cool tips. Like how to smile with your eyes.

I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change.

I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can't be scared.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

I've learnt that sometimes you've got to be patient. But it's hard for me to judge why they did it.

I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.

Backwardness leaves one vulnerable to attack -- this is the hard lesson the Chinese people have learnt from their tragic experience of repeated foreign invasions in modern history,

As a senior player group and as a management group we've got to make sure that, one, we've learnt lessons from that and we can move forward and, two, make sure the less experienced players and junior players are aware of what's required in preparation when we're away from home.

A man is not a supporter of the law because he talks much; even if a man has learnt little, but sees the law bodily, he is a supporter of the law, a man who never neglects the law.

Although we may disagree on some issues, including the significance of inherent values in European societies, there are undoubtedly more issues that bind us together than separate us. But we have to reflect on lessons learnt from the past weeks and months.

They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.

There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'

The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.

THE Universe is seen; it can be learnt about; it can be experienced and enjoyed. But God is unseen. He has to be inferred through His handiwork.  So too, Society to which social service is rendered, cannot be seen as such.

The one thing I've learnt is that you don't want to be nasty about anybody, unless they've dropped dead. And the annoying thing is that most of the people that I know who've dropped dead are really great.

I learnt a lesson that you mustn't worry what people think if you are achieving your objective.

I learnt a lot about Chinese people from this film, ... I don't think we know them very well in this country. Often, they're very closed off in their restaurants: they don't speak to us, and we don't speak to them. With this film, for the first time I had a proper feeling for Chinese people, how nice they are, their wryness, their sense of irony - a lot like us really.

I learnt framing by watching him work on the camera. He would always encourage me and now I have a collection of 90,000 photos of Ray.

I learnt how people survived and how people had to submit because you need to eat and your family need to live, so I learned the meaning of power. In a sense that power comes out in the barrel of a gun and when the Japanese gun was not as big as the American gun they surrendered and the British came back.

I've done everything, and I talk about what I've learnt through all those journeys: how I tried to save the world and I forgot to save myself.

I needed Paul in the race, not only because he is my competitor but because he is my friend. When I see him run, I can learn a lot from him. When he ran the world record, I learnt from how he ran and how he prepared for it. I need him to get experience.

I'm ashamed to say I've only just learnt to work my mobile! I don't know how to text, use my video, the net, e-mail. I can turn on the TV, the oven and drive a car! I'm living in a bygone era, I'm afraid. I'm missing a lot, I know.

I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

I guess after being on the scene I am more consistent. I have learnt a lot in these five years. Mentally I am stronger now.

I have not heard anything officially. I learnt it from the television.

I met Mike in the fifth grade and started making music when we were about twelve, and the first song we ever learnt together was ""Crazy Train"" by Ozzy Osborne.

I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements.

It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something.

Once he learnt his job he's been alright and this race has been the target for quite a while.

It's bloody annoying being shy. I'll spend a whole evening at a party asking everyone else about themselves. I'm not being self-deprecating; it's because I'm too shy to talk about myself. So people come away from the evening actually having learnt nothing about me.

In seasons gone by I've really panicked if my form has been poor at the start of the season. But now I've learnt not to worry.

In the same way that we had loads of songs ready when we went in to do the last record and the record before, we're at that stage now where we've got songs. I think they will need a lot of work, we need to learn how to play them. We've learnt from mistakes on the last record in terms of the idea that it's most important for us to play the songs together and to have them as live as possible.

In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks.

If you want to be a director, work with writers and find different ways of telling stories with film, then do a course. This way you can consolidate what you've learnt and use the course to go further.

It's always the problem with our resources industry. They have a history of boom and bust...hopefully they have learnt from their past mistakes.

It was a great finish for Marlon's goal. Since he's been at West Ham he's shown he has a subtle ability and plenty of skill. Sometimes he's rash but he's learnt his lessons from the first few games of the season,

I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less, gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given. Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; and laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

The bulk of PDS members and important functionaries have not learnt anything from history. And now they do not have the courage to say it was a wall of disgrace.

Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all the expression of an artistic director. I learnt to enter the world and the imagination of a director.

The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven't learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn't be on the boards. That's absolutely what it's all about.

The Hatfield tragedy was a terrible event for everyone involved. Lessons have been learnt and the rail industry has changed enormously for the better over the past five years.

The magic stuff was almost like light relief in a way, but of course it's also quite sinister, ... I learnt a couple of tricks, and I stole a line from a guy who was teaching me. He used to come in and do a few tricks for me, and he'd say 'I am magic!' You'll hear me say that in the piece.

A good trick I learnt early on is not to immediately look at playback because once you know the shot, you can see when the camera is on you. It's best to stay 'in it' all the time, and just if it's on you, it's on you, and if it's not, it's not. It's the easiest way.

Everybody has learnt lessons from the July 7 attacks.

The objective of my visit is to learn from the experience of the Turin Games and we have learnt a lot.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

It's still a possibility. But the valuation is high, and one thing we learnt from the J&J bid for Guidant is they are very sensitive to valuation.

I decided to do advertising, as ad films were made in only 10 days, and started assisting Sanjeev Sharma and Mansoor Khan. Surprisingly, I was a whiz kid and soon learnt to edit films and became an expert at it.

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.

We have learnt that nothing is simple and rational except what we ourselves have invented; that God thinks in terms neither of Euclid nor of Riemann; that science has "explained" nothing; that the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

I let the cast improvise a lot, especially with the slang, where they would say 'g and t' for gin and tonic. I wouldn't say that. I would say 'dicey' when they would say 'dodgy.' I learnt a lot.