934 private quotes tagged experience

“And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.” — Busy Philipps

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“Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.” — Bashar al-Assad

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“Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.” — Arnold Palmer

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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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“There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.” — Robert Carlyle

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“No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.” — Hu Shih

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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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“There are some things you only learn through experience.” — Joe Namath

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“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.” — Erwin Schrodinger

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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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“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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“Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.” — Allen Tate

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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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“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've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.” — Ethan Hawke

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“The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.” — Andrew Mason

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“Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.” — Walter Salles

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“I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.” — George Strait

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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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“On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.” — Bruce Willis

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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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“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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“Being in love is the only transcendent experience.” — Armistead Maupin

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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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“The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.” — Ernst Mach

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