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Experience Quotes
"In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation."
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"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."
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"Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world."
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"There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples."
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"I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience."
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"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."
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"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."
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"Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too."
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"We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book."
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"I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions."
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"Experience is more important than knowledge."
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"My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience."
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"While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference."
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"Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness."
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"You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world."
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"What people want is a seamless Web experience."
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"However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions."
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"Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience."
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"I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked."
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"The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure."
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"It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience."
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"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay."
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"An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me."
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"You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is."
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"I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is."
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"She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely special."
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"Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself."
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"No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales."
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"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
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"It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!"
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"Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed."
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"In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy."
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"I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences."
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"The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience."
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"I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience."
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"With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting."
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"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live."
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"My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win."
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"I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences."
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"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
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"I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will."
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"Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different."
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"I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul."
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"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."
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"Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience."
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"It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song."
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"The reward of suffering is experience."
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"I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head."
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"I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry."
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