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Experience Quotes
"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
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"I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience."
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"I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career."
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"I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before."
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"Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience."
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"The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western."
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"At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality."
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"For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere."
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"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity."
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"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
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"Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience."
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"When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions."
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"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
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"And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."
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"We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs."
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"Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it."
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"We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience."
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"I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States."
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"Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement."
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"Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience."
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"I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."
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"I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience."
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"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."
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"If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage."
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"It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man."
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"I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance."
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"I really enjoyed every minute of it. I mean, I've learned so much in the last week, I mean, just the way to play a real, real doubles. It was a great experience for me, and we had a lot of fun."
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"I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not."
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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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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"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."
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"In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!"
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"African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college."
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"The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had."
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"Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience."
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"I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture."
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"Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave."
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"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."
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"I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again."
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"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before."
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"The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter."
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"Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes."
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"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."
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"In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds."
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"At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience."
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"I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world."
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