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Experience Quotes
"Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated."
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"Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings."
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"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
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"If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void."
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"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle."
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"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."
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"I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment."
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"But theatre is always a difficult experience."
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"Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience."
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"I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first."
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"Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence."
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"When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness."
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"As she'd walked along this street, a million stars stretched across an indigo canvas, holding all the freedom she'd yearned for every night."
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"Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience."
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"In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite."
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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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"At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience."
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"If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience."
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"Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty."
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"It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride."
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"Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience."
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"And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it."
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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
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"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."
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"A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments."
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"Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else."
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"I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride."
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"For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim."
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"I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one."
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"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."
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"I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable."
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"Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'"
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"You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness."
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"I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine."
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"The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space."
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"Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both."
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"Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent."
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"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
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"I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for."
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"It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night."
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"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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"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."
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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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"We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience."
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"What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you."
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"Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class."
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