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Experience Quotes
"The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed."
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"None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones."
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"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"
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"Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care."
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"Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make."
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"Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience."
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"Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain."
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"Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country."
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"People can really have an impact on a campaign and learn an awful lot. It can be an enjoyable experience."
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"Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience."
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"There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem."
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"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
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"If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness."
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"I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement."
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"He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin."
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"And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man."
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"The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed."
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"I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago."
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"Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you."
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"Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd."
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"I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best."
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"When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast."
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"I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience."
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"And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic."
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"I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness."
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"Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters."
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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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"And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment."
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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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"Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it."
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"There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny."
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"The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst."
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"I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman."
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"Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible."
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"I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience."
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"Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?"
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"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
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"I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress."
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"I do NOT think that PC gaming is over... it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience."
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"We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration."
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"We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows."
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"I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything."
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"Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win."
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"My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan."
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"A Kiss concert experience is like sex or anything else that's done with more that one person. It's the give and take that makes it so great. When the audience takes it to the next level, we can kick it up another notch."
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"Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity."
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"The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher."
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"One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not."
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"The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations."
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