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Experience Quotes
"Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience."
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"People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them."
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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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"The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses."
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"If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context."
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"All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions."
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"But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball."
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"Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience."
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"I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me."
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"Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution."
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"I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work."
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"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."
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"I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her."
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"I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it."
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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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"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body 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."
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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 a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget."
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"I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room."
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"From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker."
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"When I saw The Player, I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience."
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"You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has."
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"What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give."
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"For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian."
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"Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing."
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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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"You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience."
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"Experience life in all possible ways - good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter."
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"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."
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"I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones."
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"Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives."
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"When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had."
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"I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor."
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"Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians."
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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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"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent."
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"I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had."
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"I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it."
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"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."
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"All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience."
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"I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad."
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"If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me."
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"Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form."
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"But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us."
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"The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years."
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"Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name."
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