934 private quotes tagged experience

“My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.” — Jack Kevorkian

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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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“The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.” — Christa McAuliffe

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“The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.” — Henri Poincare

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“Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.” — Joyce Maynard

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“A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.” — Ian Mcewan

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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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“With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.” — Andrea Arnold

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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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“I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.” — Trey Anastasio

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“When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.” — Jasper Johns

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“Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.” — Mark Zandi

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“An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.” — James Baldwin

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“Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.” — Richard Russo

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“The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.” — Marissa Mayer

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“I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.” — Peter De Vries

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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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“Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.” — Evelyn Glennie

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“Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.” — Liza Minnelli

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“I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.” — Dave Brubeck

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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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“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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“We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.” — Bashar al-Assad

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“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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