In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.

The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood.

I've always wanted to be a professional dancer, I'd always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came to be.

People say I wasn't a real athlete, but I trained hard. It's possible to take something seriously and still have fun at it, you know.

I mean, I deal with so many problems on a personal basis with my students and I think to myself, 'Nobody ever trained me to do this.'

The comment that I've made is that if unaccompanied minors can cross the border, then certainly trained terrorists probably can, too.

I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home.

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

I believe your stomach tells you what it wants, and I don't think mine asks for anything that unhealthy. I'm a trained health machine.

It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe.

The day I signed for Chelsea, I had to go around the world - from Los Angeles to Singapore, through London - and I trained. Difficult.

Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.

I trained, went to college, trained, and got a job. Then got another job. When I wasn't working I worked at a bar, then got another job.

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

I've trained with trainers in L.A., and they get complacent. They're used to dealing with celebrity egos, so they cotton-wool you a bit.

I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.

People see a lot of my standup, and that's what I'm known for since I was trained in karate and kickboxing, but I also have ground game.

I am trained as a psychologist, and I think of all human issues in terms of psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary theory.

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

For me it's a pleasure to be trained by Zidane. I am just very thankful for all he has been asking me to do and for helping me to evolve.

I'm a classically trained actress, and I have many levels and colors, and 'Ventura Boulevard' is where I am planning to stretch and grow.

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

I'm theatrically trained. Before Vine, before any of the social media, I was an actor. I was going to auditions; I was taking the classes.

I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.

I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am.

I have performed all over the world to packed audiences. I don't have to be a trained musician to prove my singing abilities to my critics.

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.

It is unfair to say one doctor is better than the other based on a degree, especially because we are all trained together during residency.

If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.

ISIS is a battle-hardened, highly trained organization that is well-funded. They're one of the strongest armies in the world for their size.

I had Jake Ellenberger. I trained very hard for him; then I was able to get Carlos Condit, an excellent fighter. That's what it's all about.

If you think about what the Postal Service fundamentally does, those guys are trained to get mail and sort mail - there's trust verification.

I got into hip-hop, but I still had appreciation for all types of music, so I was trained to have an open mind and to always go with the flow.

I loved my time in Deep South Wrestling. We trained so hard and I got a crash course into the world of sports entertainment and pro wrestling.

I trained for about a year before I had my first amateur fight. I won by knockout, and then, for my second fight, the guy didn't even show up.

Even in school, I was that kid others tried to pull down because I was naughty and did well in sports and academics. Life has trained me well.

My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

In MMA, you're trained to tune the audience out. In sports entertainment, you're trained to feed off what the audience is thinking and feeling.

My father, Tommy, who was a trained draughtsman, played for Preston North End in the Finney era. He liked football but did not love it as I do.

I'd say I'm really, really good for a 16-year-old, which is where I peaked. I'm impressive, but not classically trained, not a concert pianist.

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