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Experience Quotes
"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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"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."
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"Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight."
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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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"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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"The reward of suffering is experience."
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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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"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
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"I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience."
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"The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings."
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"It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence."
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"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."
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"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."
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"There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own."
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"People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far."
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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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"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."
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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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"And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an 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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"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
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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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"The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is."
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"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."
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"It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime."
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"Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience."
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"Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God."
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"There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience."
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"So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time."
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"But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge."
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"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
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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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"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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"Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain."
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"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."
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"There are so many mistakes you can learn only by making them yourself. There is no substitute for 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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"The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea."
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"Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time."
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"I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all."
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"As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest."
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"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
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"I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience."
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"I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin."
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"It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children."
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"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
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"There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this."
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"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."
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