Amy Dickinson Quotes
When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.
Amy Dickinson
Quotes to Explore
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I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
Manolo Blahnik
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
Karlie Kloss
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Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
Natalie Portman
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
Gal Gadot
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
T. J. Thyne
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
Maceo Parker
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There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.
Maajid Nawaz
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I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
T. D. Jakes
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'Almost everything interesting in the human experience is the result of an individual experiencing, experimenting, explaining, and sharing,' said my young friend. 'A hive mind would be the ancient television broadcasts, or life at the height of the datasphere...consensual idiocy.'
Dan Simmons
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Right now we are being given the experience we need to raise our consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
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The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
Anthony Bourdain
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What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense - none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.
Hyman G. Rickover
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But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.
Christopher Nolan
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Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating featured any black kids-except for token blacks in the background. My book would have him there simply because he should have been there all along. Years before I had cut from a magazine a strip of photos of a little black boy. I often put them on my studio walls before I'd begun to illustrate children's books. I just loved looking at him. This was the child who would be the hero of my book.
Ezra Jack Keats
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
Salman Rushdie
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I'm nothing without God.
Taraji P. Henson
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We're all gonna lie, we're all gonna cry, and we're all gonna take painful shits. loud cheer Yeah. You could be man of the year or woman of the universe. You're gonna be in your bathroom one day, goin' 'Aah! Ugh! Are there glass shards in my anus?! Aah!' Somewhere, Halle Berry is clutching her Oscar, goin' 'Aah! Aah! Why me? I'm an Oscar winner!'
Dane Cook
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When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.
Amy Dickinson
