Experience Quotes
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To some extent, Rwanda became a victim of the Somalia experience.
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The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.
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Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.
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Life is a very emotional experience.
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These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.
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My high school experience was kind of like 'Mean Girls.' It was very much like a bad B movie. 'This is where the jocks sit, and this is where the cheerleaders sit.' And I never really fit in. I guess I was sort of a theatre geek, but the activity that I was most invested in was speech and debate.
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Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.
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Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.
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Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience.
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I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.
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I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A.
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Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.
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But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.
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There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.
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It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.
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Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
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I do a lot of teen shows and voice over work for animation, so when I got the part in 'The Number 23,' it was really cool because now I get to be in a movie with Jim Carrey. Acting in this movie was really a learning experience for me.
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I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.
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I think art comes out of meaningful experiences, and it's hard to make art when your meaningful experience is getting into your electric car and driving from your fancy house in the Hills to your fancy job in the Valley.
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Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
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I think being on 'Glee' is such a great experience, but I think the best part was when I did 'All By Myself', because I love that song.
