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"Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama."
Allen Tate
"Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama."
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"I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music."
Danny Elfman
"I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music."
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"I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing."
Tim Robbins
"I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing."
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"I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up."
Todd Barry
"I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up."
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"I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera."
Javier Bardem
"I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera."
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"I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen."
Lionel Blue
"I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen."
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"During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned."
Martin Ryle
"During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned."
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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."
Shigeru Miyamoto
"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 Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare."
Jodie Foster
"I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare."
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"To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour."
William Kingdon Clifford
"To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour."
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"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."
Twyla Tharp
"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."
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"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience."
Patrick Henry
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience."
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"I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human."
Rainn Wilson
"I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human."
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"Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it."
Vita Sackville-West
"Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it."
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"Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce."
W. Averell Harriman
"Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce."
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"I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players."
Jennifer Capriati
"I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players."
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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."
Andrew McCarthy
"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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"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
Earl Wilson
"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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"Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities."
Dee Hock
"Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities."
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"In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style."
Cat Stevens
"In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style."
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"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."
Chinua Achebe
"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."
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"So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more."
Barbara Hershey
"So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more."
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"It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'"
Neale Donald Walsch
"It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'"
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"Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers."
Sid Meier
"Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers."
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"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."
Aneurin Bevan
"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."
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"One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is."
Norman Vincent Peale
"One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is."
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"When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience."
Douglas Trumbull
"When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience."
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"All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved."
Hans Kung
"All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved."
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"Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development."
Rodrigo Rato
"Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development."
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"We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!"
Margaret J. Wheatley
"We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!"
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"I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America."
Renny Harlin
"I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America."
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"From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition."
Angela Merkel
"From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition."
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"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."
Herbert Read
"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."
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"The Lotus is a couple of years newer than the Williams was, and as the pace of development in F1 cars is so quick, I expect it to be another completely different experience, but still one that I know I'm going to enjoy."
Nelson Piquet
"The Lotus is a couple of years newer than the Williams was, and as the pace of development in F1 cars is so quick, I expect it to be another completely different experience, but still one that I know I'm going to enjoy."
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"Science is the systematic classification of experience."
George Henry Lewes
"Science is the systematic classification of experience."
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"What the eyes had seen could not be erased."
Frank Herbert
"What the eyes had seen could not be erased."
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"It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth."
Sharon Stone
"It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth."
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"As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive."
Gavin Newsom
"As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive."
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"All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience."
Alice Walker
"All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience."
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"Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience."
Frank Shorter
"Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience."
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"The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences."
Saint Augustine
"The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences."
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"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
Ellen Goodman
"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
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"I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience."
Matt LeBlanc
"I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience."
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"Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience."
Eli Wallach
"Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience."
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"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed."
Ram Dass
"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed."
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"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
John Locke
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
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"The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds."
Paul D. Boyer
"The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds."
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"Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience."
Bishop Robert South
"Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience."
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"So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that."
Maria Menounos
"So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that."
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"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception."
Alan Moore
"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception."
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