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Experience Quotes
"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
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"I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before."
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"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."
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"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."
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"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
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"What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that."
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"Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture."
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"Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process."
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"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
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"Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?"
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"During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus."
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"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"
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"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."
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"I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to."
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"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
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"Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes."
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"Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players."
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"Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values."
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"Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there's another side to the coin, and you can't remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important-creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could."
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"Playboy was a wonderful experience and a great opportunity for me."
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"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."
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"Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger."
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"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."
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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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"I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time."
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"It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases."
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"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
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"When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser."
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"The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far."
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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 constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure."
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"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency."
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"It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty."
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"I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience."
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"As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying."
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"Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career."
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"A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive."
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"There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that."
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"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
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"I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience."
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"In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation."
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"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."
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"Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world."
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"There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples."
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"I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience."
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"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."
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