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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
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the exhausting aspects of my job are made worthwhile because I get to experience so many different cultures. It makes you really appreciate the memories.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.
- Harmonious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoyed my time in state government. I thought we made a difference. I liked being a part of that effort. I had a different experience in Washington.
- Words
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off. I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted. You get bummed out, and then you go, 'Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself.' That kind of helps.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone in high school at one point feels like they're on the outside observing what's going on. Even if you're very popular, you have an outsider experience.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're living with these characters for years and years, you need to have a lock on who they are as people, what they like, what they don't like, what they experience, and what they go through.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Die Hard' was a really awesome experience, but I was too young to understand what a big film it was.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely special.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020