Gene Wolfe Quotes
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In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
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Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
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I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.
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I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
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I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.
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Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.
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I don't think that the United States has the bulk of the responsibility. I really put that on Bashar Assad and on the Iraqis and on the region itself.
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Experience is a wonderful teacher, but one whose lessons come too late.
