"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."

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"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."

Ellen Goodman, American Journalist

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"I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience."

Jim Carrey, Canadian Comedian

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"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."

W. C. Fields, American Comedian

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"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."

Oliver Stone, American Director

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"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon."

Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakian Athlete

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"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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"My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan."

Alex North, American Composer

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"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

Alice James, American Writer

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"Experience everything but cling to what is right."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."

Ricardo Montalban, Mexican Actor

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"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."

"I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience."

"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."

"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."

"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon."

"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."

"My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan."

"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

"Experience everything but cling to what is right."

"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."

Explore more quotes by Don Marquis

"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."

"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."

"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality."

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"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

"In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going."

"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."

"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."