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My parents never really lecture me.
A one-size-fits-all lecture is not the way to go about education.
A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.
I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.
A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.
Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
I do sometimes lecture people about what they're eating, but that's only if they ask me.
One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.
Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.
I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.
If I disagree with someone, I let them have their say and move on. I don't want to be the one to lecture.
In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.
Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
The big message I give to all of our clients, and anyone we lecture to, is you have to be smart with your money.
As I often lecture businesses, it is not the email you send which matters, but how people feel when they read it.
You don't want to bash viewers over the head with a blunt message or lecture them - they'd soon get bored with that.
Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
I have not been able in one lecture even to scratch the surface of the role of maximum principles in analytic economics.
I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
Of what good would another lecture on peace be? Peace is not something to lecture about, but something to put into practice.
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
No one wants a lecture when you're getting a latte. So if you get one without asking, isn't that grounds for some discipline?
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
Just because we finally have a Latino family on TV doesn't mean we're up there to lecture people about what it means to be Latino.
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.
I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.
It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.
So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.
One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.
As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.