- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience Quotes
What years and habits teach you.
This collection uses "experience" to cover both comfort and unease — from finding solace in familiar music, to noticing how wealth and poverty can sit side by side in daily life. For a broader look at personal journeys, see Journey quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved frequently because my dad was in the army, so I was always new in school. I think if you've ever done that, you know what it means to not matter in a room. I think it's a good experience for everyone to have, to feel like they're not noticed, because it teaches you to be empathetic.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to make a living at independent films, at least in my experience. It can be hard to be really creatively fulfilled in some television. Between the two, I get a bit of both.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Wonka' was an unforgettable experience. When I first saw the set, it was like walking into a theme park, and most of it was edible.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.
- College Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first joined the Secret Service in 1983, I was right out of college, having spent the last two or three years of my college experience working as a police officer for the city of Orlando, Florida.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to talk too much about my music; I like people to just experience it and not worry what I have to say.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it's hard to find one's foundation.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in my world now.' I was drawn to that as an idea less from my own experience than from listening to music written by men that was kind of male gaze-y.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020