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There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.
– Amy Lee
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Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
– Nelson Mandela
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
– Karl Marx
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It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
– Bryant H. McGill
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
– Ian Mckellen
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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
– Marshall McLuhan
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
– John Stuart Mill
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The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
– Arthur Miller
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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
– Marilyn Monroe
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Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
– Alan Moore
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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience-there and then gone.
– Bill Moyers
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People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
– Bill Murray
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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.
– Princess Masako
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I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.
– Shigeru Miyamoto
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In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
– Alberto Moravia
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
– Flannery O'Connor
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Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
– David M. Ogilvy
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I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
– David M. Ogilvy
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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
– Pope John Paul II
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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
– Robert M. Pirsig
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Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.
– Bob Packwood
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
– Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
– Carl R. Rogers
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I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.
– Tim Roth
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
– John Ruskin
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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The reward of suffering is experience.
– Harry S. Truman
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
– Mark Twain
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
– Abigail Van Buren
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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
– Voltaire
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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
– Denis Waitley
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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
– Denis Waitley
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
– Alice Walker
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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.
– Paul Walker
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
– George Washington
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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
– Eudora Welty
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Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
– William Whewell
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
– Alfred North Whitehead
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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
– Elie Wiesel
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
– Oscar Wilde
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
– Virginia Woolf
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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
– Virginia Woolf
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Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
– Walter Wriston
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Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
– Vash Young
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
– Randolph Bourne
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The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
– Albert Camus
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
– Fran Lebowitz
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
– M. Scott Peck
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Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.
– Moon Unit Zappa
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You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.
– Harvey Keitel
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You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.
– Diana Krall
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You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.
– Renny Harlin
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You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.
– Niklas Zennstrom
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You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there with them, and many hours of conversation. But if - knock on wood - anything should ever happen to your dog, these nameless non-strangers will rally, sympathize, offer to help, and hold your hand. I know this from experience.
– Susan Orlean
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You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
– J. K. Rowling
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You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
– David Mamet
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You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.
– Mike Epps
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You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.
– Diablo Cody
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You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.
– Talib Kweli
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You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
– Jack Nicklaus
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You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
– Arthur Erickson
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You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
– Mos Def
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You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
– Taylor Swift
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You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.
– Regina King
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You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.
– Andre Agassi
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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
– Woodrow Wilson
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You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.
– Dee Dee Myers
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You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.
– Terry Bradshaw
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You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.
– Michael Haneke
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You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.
– Aubrey O'Day
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You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
– Fiona Apple
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You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.
– Wayne Rooney
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You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.
– Robert Rodriguez
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You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
– Jackie Kennedy
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
– Muhammad Iqbal
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Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.
– Joyce Carol Oates
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Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
– Keith Richards
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Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.
– Rick Springfield
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
– Flannery O'Connor
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Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'
– Martin Scorsese
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Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.
– Tom Felton
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Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
– Mary Daly
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.
– Shirley MacLaine
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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
– Liz Phair
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
– H. L. Mencken
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With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.
– Andrea Arnold
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With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.
– Gus Van Sant
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With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.
– Jane Campion
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
– Abigail Adams
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
– Barney Frank
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While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.
– Russell Crowe
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