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"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."
Rene Daumal
"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."
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"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."
James Baldwin
"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."
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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."
Andrew Cohen
"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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"Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure."
Xavier Becerra
"Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure."
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"You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none."
Marat Safin
"You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none."
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"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."
Jim Horning
"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."
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"The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher."
Frank McCourt
"The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher."
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"I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement."
Jasper Johns
"I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement."
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"Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently."
Margaret Atwood
"Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently."
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"I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies."
Ornette Coleman
"I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies."
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"I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life."
Dougray Scott
"I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life."
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"Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience."
George H. Mead
"Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience."
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"All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control."
Chauncey Wright
"All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control."
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"I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been."
Fay Wray
"I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been."
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"I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid."
P. J. O'Rourke
"I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid."
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"We said, OK. We'll - as long as you take good care of us. And so it was a lot of fun. There was a lot of ups and downs throughout the whole period of time. And it's a very unique experience."
Emmanuel Lewis
"We said, OK. We'll - as long as you take good care of us. And so it was a lot of fun. There was a lot of ups and downs throughout the whole period of time. And it's a very unique experience."
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"If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful."
Bernice Johnson Reagon
"If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful."
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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."
Maxfield Parrish
"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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"So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night."
Mary Chapin Carpenter
"So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night."
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"And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are."
Duane G. Carey
"And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are."
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"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."
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"I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago."
Jim Harrison
"I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago."
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"Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability."
John Hickenlooper
"Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability."
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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."
Vicente Fox
"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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"If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes."
Jacques-Louis David
"If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes."
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"Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see the film. They certainly aren't going to the projects to see for themselves the situation."
Mathieu Kassovitz
"Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see the film. They certainly aren't going to the projects to see for themselves the situation."
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."
Barbara de Angelis
"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."
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"Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised."
Shoshana Zuboff
"Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised."
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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."
Mike Myers
"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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"Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff."
Madeleine Peyroux
"Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff."
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"Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums."
Deana Carter
"Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums."
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"The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world."
Deepak Chopra
"The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world."
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"It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night."
Willie Sutton
"It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night."
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"I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture."
Jean Shepherd
"I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture."
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"No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City."
Michael Bloomberg
"No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City."
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"Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction."
James Blunt
"Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction."
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"And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right."
Carol Kane
"And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right."
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"We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance."
Helmut Jahn
"We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance."
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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."
Joshua Jackson
"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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"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body."
Barbara de Angelis
"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body."
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"Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden."
Gerald Scarfe
"Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden."
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"With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives."
Mary McDonnell
"With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives."
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"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election."
Eddie Bernice Johnson
"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election."
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"The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience."
Isabella I
"The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience."
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
Carl Clinton Van Doren
"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
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"Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system."
Richard Lugar
"Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system."
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"I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare."
Lauren Hutton
"I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare."
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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."
Judy Holliday
"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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"In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself."
Robert Hass
"In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself."
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"Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff."
Roger McGuinn
"Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff."
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