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My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.
– Jim Lehrer
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My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.
– Ryan Sheckler
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My kids will grow up in a house knowing that it's perfectly normal for two men to be in love, it's perfectly normal for two women to be in love. My kids will grow up knowing it's all about love. It doesn't matter who you're with and everyone should have that experience.
– Tori Spelling
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My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
– Bruce Springsteen
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
– Aeschylus
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My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.
– Andrea Arnold
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My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
– Alan Cumming
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My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.
– Michelle Bachelet
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My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.
– Ann Romney
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My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
– Ally Sheedy
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My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
– Mike Mills
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
– Laura Linney
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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
– Thomas Huxley
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My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.
– David Schwimmer
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Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.
– Jared Leto
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Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
– Kenneth Branagh
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Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.
– Andrew Cohen
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More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
– Vivienne Westwood
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Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
– Catherine Deneuve
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Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
– Rashida Jones
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Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
– Ron Wyden
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Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.
– Evelyn Glennie
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Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
– David Mitchell
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Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
– Margaret Fuller
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Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.
– Tony Kushner
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Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
– Scott Weiland
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Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
– David Copperfield
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Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
– Robert Wyatt
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Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
– Brooke Shields
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Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
– Orlando Bloom
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Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
– Thomas Wolfe
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Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.
– Susan Orlean
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
– Carlos Fuentes
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Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.
– April Winchell
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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
– Daniel Libeskind
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Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
– Carre Otis
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
– Anna Deavere Smith
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Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.
– Joshua Foer
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
– Albert Schweitzer
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Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
– Simon Bolivar
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It's wonderful to be in love. And it's definitely wonderful to cuddle and have sex and get to experience life with somebody. But it's OK if you don't find him and you're 24. You can find it someday.
– Leighton Meester
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It's really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it's a really incredible feeling. I'm so grateful I get to experience this.
– Emily Procter
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It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.
– Sharon Stone
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It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.
– Louis C. K.
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It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.
– Ann Romney
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It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.
– Blake Edwards
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It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.
– Serena Williams
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It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.
– Theresa May
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It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'
– Neale Donald Walsch
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It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.
– David Bowie
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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.
– Raul Julia
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It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.
– Jason Mraz
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
– William Morris
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It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.
– Godfrey Reggio
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It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.
– Christy Turlington
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It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.
– Chris Hemsworth
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It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
– Emily Mortimer
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
– John Steinbeck
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
– Abraham Lincoln
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It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
– Arthur Laffer
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It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
– Warren Farrell
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Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
– Henry Reed
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In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
– Cat Stevens
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
– Bertrand Russell
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In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.
– Minnie Driver
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In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
– Christopher Lasch
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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
– Jane Smiley
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In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.
– Tim Allen
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In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.
– Thor Heyerdahl
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In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
– Chrissie Hynde
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
– Ian Mcewan
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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
– Dean Koontz
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In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.
– Rashida Jones
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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
– Imran Khan
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Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
– Newt Gingrich
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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.
– E. W. Howe
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If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.
– Edward Norton
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If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.
– Greg Kinnear
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If you're out there stressing on your pro day, then you're not going to perform well, so I plan on having a little fun. Play a little music while we're out there throwing the football, have everybody tapping their toes and bobbing their head and just go out there and make the most of the experience.
– Robert Griffin III
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
– Joseph Addison
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If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
– Emil Zatopek
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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
– Quincy Jones
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If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.
– Thabo Mbeki
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If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.
– Marion Cotillard
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If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.
– George Saunders
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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
– Jeff Bezos
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If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.
– Henry Kravis
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If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
– Antonin Scalia
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If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.
– David Lynch
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If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
– Vinoba Bhave
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If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
– Jaron Lanier
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If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
– John Polkinghorne
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
– Beck
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If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!
– Joyce Maynard
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If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
– Imran Khan
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
– William James
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If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.
– Alanis Morissette
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I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.
– Gus Van Sant
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I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.
– Jonah Hill
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