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Experience Quotes
"Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience."
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"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
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"No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted."
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"It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on."
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"Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years."
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"In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force."
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"There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans."
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"The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'"
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"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."
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"It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour."
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"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"
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"If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one."
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"Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism."
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"With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater."
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"So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience."
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"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam."
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"But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over."
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"The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer."
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"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
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"To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists."
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"I always look for an intense experience, an intense ride. There is nothing better than a good zombie movie where you run crazy and blow at monsters! It was a physical shoot and I enjoyed it."
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"But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know."
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"Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience."
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"My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights."
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"The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get."
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"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."
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"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."
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"While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience."
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"In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas."
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"Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes."
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"It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand."
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"I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience."
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"People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team."
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"I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination."
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"Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it."
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"Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey."
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"Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?"
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"Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
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"One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult."
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"I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience."
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"I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me."
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"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
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"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."
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"The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me."
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"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"
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"I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into."
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"My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience."
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