What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
The hardest is foods I am not familiar with. Gyros, I lost that one; I don't like tzatziki sauce very much. I did kimchi in Korea, which was rough: fermented cabbage and spicy.
One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.
I was 17 the first time I set foot in a classroom, but 10 years later, I would graduate from Cambridge with a Ph.D. 'Educated' is the story of how I came by my education. It is also the story of how I lost my family.
More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.
We have lost the art of sharing and caring.
He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
I have lost almost every friend that I had before Casey died.
We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.
I've lost count of the plane tickets I've had in my pocket for people's weddings and other celebrations which I've had to tear up because I was making a film. How many things like that can you miss and still be in people's lives?
I got caught up in the whole celebrity thing, lost control at times.
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
In a tripartite government with its checks and balances, we have lost the balances.
I had a double bacon cheeseburger at Chili's, and I lost a tooth in it. My tooth!
During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened.
Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.