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Experience Quotes
"We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience."
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"Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience."
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"And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."
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"When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions."
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"I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States."
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"I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience."
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"Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it."
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"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
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"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
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"I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career."
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"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity."
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"Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience."
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"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
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"Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience."
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"At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality."
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"For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere."
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"The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western."
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"Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement."
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"We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs."
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"I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before."
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"I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."
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"It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man."
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"If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage."
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"I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience."
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"I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance."
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"I really enjoyed every minute of it. I mean, I've learned so much in the last week, I mean, just the way to play a real, real doubles. It was a great experience for me, and we had a lot of fun."
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"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."
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"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."
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"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."
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"I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not."
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"
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"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."
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"I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career."
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"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."
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"To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed."
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"It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses."
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"In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy."
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"You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives."
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"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."
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"In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!"
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"African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college."
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"I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience."
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"I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish."
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
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"You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world."
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