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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
– Harold MacMillan
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
– Fergie
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I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy reading about it, talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land, living it as I have and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience.
– Wilbur Smith
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I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.
– Carrie Fisher
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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 hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.
– Ani Difranco
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I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.
– Diablo Cody
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I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
– George Osborne
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I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.
– Cathy Guisewite
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I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.
– Clara Hughes
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
– William Shakespeare
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I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
– Daniel Radcliffe
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I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.
– Christopher Meloni
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I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.
– Christopher Meloni
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I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
– Gail Simmons
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I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
– Francis Ford Coppola
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I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.
– Joaquin Phoenix
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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
– Harriet Tubman
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I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.
– Julianna Margulies
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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
– Barbra Streisand
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I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.
– Michael Sheen
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I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
– Lee Child
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I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.
– Lionel Blue
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I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.
– Cynthia Nixon
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I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.
– Julianna Margulies
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I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.
– Seth Rogen
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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
– Vincent van Gogh
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I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.
– Willie Stargell
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
– Fareed Zakaria
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I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
– Danny Boyle
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I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.
– Hilary Swank
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I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.
– Steve Jobs
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I don't think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don't have something to hold in your hand, if you don't have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.
– Shigeru Miyamoto
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
– Carlos Fuentes
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I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'
– Jimmy Carter
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I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.
– Cameron Diaz
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I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.
– Ai Weiwei
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I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.
– Miranda Lambert
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I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
– Cate Blanchett
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I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.
– Jason Mraz
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I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.
– Josh Hutcherson
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I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.
– Kiefer Sutherland
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I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
– Gary Neville
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I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.
– Mariah Carey
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I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
– Marianne Williamson
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I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.
– Bessie Coleman
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I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
– Mos Def
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I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.
– Janice Dickinson
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I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.
– Juliette Binoche
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!
– Yani Tseng
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I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.
– Todd Barry
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I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
– Robert Duvall
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I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
– Ken Blanchard
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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
– Jeanette Winterson
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How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?
– Simon Mainwaring
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
– Alan Watts
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How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.
– Keanu Reeves
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History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
– Gerald R. Ford
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
– Billy Joel
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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
– Doug Coupland
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Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.
– Eric Liu
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Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.
– Oscar Levant
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
– Damien Hirst
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
– Will Rogers
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Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.
– Christian Slater
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Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
– Hillary Clinton
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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
– Richard Cecil
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Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.
– Jon Meacham
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Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
– Paul Cezanne
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Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.
– Shigeru Miyamoto
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Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.
– Mike Krzyzewski
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From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.
– Angela Merkel
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From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.
– Carl Hiaasen
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From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
– Alan Rickman
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
– Billie Joe Armstrong
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For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.
– Sloane Crosley
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For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
– Darrell Royal
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For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.
– Joaquin Phoenix
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
– Carl Jung
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Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.
– Gordon Ramsay
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Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.
– Michael Haneke
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Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.
– Liev Schreiber
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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
– Laura Hillenbrand
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
– Walter Pater
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Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.
– Stan Smith
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Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
– Mary Baker Eddy
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
– George Washington
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
– Aldous Huxley
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
– George Santayana
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Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.
– Dave Obey
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Experience is the teacher of all things.
– Julius Caesar
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
– Earl Wilson
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
– Federico Fellini
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
– Oscar Wilde
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
– Henry James
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Experience is a great teacher.
– John Legend
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Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
– Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
– A. E. Housman
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