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Experience Quotes
"The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference."
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"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
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"At one time in my life, a shapeshifted, demonically possessed maniac crashing through a window and trying to rip my face off would have come as an enormous and nasty surprise.But that time was pretty much in the past."
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"God, don't laugh!" Jamie said, alarmed. "I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here!"
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"Knowing it does not compare with loving it, loving it does not compare with delighting in it."
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"Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old."
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"With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others."
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"It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience."
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
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"Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights."
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"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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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."
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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."
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"Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams."
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"Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is it?"
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"Naturally all of them had a sad story: too much notice, not enough, or the worst kind. Some tale about dragon daddies and false-hearted men, or mean mamas and friends who did them wrong. Each story has a monster in it who made them tough instead of brave, so they open their legs rather than their hearts where that folded child is tucked."
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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes."
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"Killing is no ordinary act,' said the vampire. 'One doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.' He shook his head. 'It is the experience of another's life for certain, and often the experience of the loss of that life through the blood, slowly. It is again and again the experience when I sucked the blood from Lestat's wrist and felt his heart pound with my heart. It is again and again a celebration of that experience; because for vampires that is the ultimate experience."
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"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
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"The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate."
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"I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless."
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"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is."
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"Listen to learn. Learn to earn!"
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"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."
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"You've probably heard it before-if not, you've likely experienced it yourself."
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"If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids."
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"Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters."
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"Life's experiences will just keep repeating themselves unless you continually add some new experiences to enliven your days."
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"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."
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"Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way."
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"What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do somethingyou've never done before? There's only one way to find out."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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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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"Ive learnt the most about myself through the people and places i no longer visit, such an ironic exprience.The greatest lessons are from those we give the keys of our hearts to & trust all too easily; realising later on, they are just apart of this grande' story and not everyone gets to make it to the end chapter & happy ever after."
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"Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then; for she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly...Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression."
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"He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo.Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic.Nothing is more sublime."
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"I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage."
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"I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room."
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"If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it."
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"Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience."
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"Sandwich outdoors isn't a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite."
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"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
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"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."
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"Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance."
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"If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived."
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"When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words."
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