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Experience Quotes
"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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"If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle."
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"Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem."
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"Experience is more important than knowledge."
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"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
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"I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world."
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"So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since."
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"Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career."
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"I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years."
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"Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics."
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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."
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"But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music."
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"If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having."
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"I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding."
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"Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get."
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"The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing."
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"It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience."
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"Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience."
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"Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution."
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"Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience."
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"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."
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"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around."
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"Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy."
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"Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name."
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"I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them."
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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."
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"Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders."
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"I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone."
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"But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience."
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"But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get."
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"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."
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"Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy."
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"Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it."
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"I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button."
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"It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted."
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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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"I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea."
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"But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way."
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"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."
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"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
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"You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you."
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"The most valuable lessons come not from teachers or textbooks, but from life experience."
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"The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli."
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"Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that."
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"If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless."
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"You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience."
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"Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners."
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"The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience."
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"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."
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