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- So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.
- Henry Louis Gates on Experience
- Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.
- Danny Boyle on Experience
- Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
- V. S. Naipaul on Experience
- Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.
- David Ogden Stiers on Experience
- Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.
- John Mayer on Experience
- Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.
- Loretta Lynn on Experience
- Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.
- Edward Zwick on Experience
- Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
- Brian Eno on Experience
- Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.
- Michael Sheen on Experience
- Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
- Francis Bacon on Experience
- Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
- Michael Eisner on Experience
- Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
- John Dewey on Experience
- Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
- Horace on Experience
- Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
- Ben Affleck on Experience
- Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
- Rainer Maria Rilke on Experience
- Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.
- Paul Walker on Experience
- Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
- Fred Perry on Experience
- Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
- Tony Robbins on Experience
- Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
- Jim Rohn on Experience
- Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
- Bill Watterson on Experience
- Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
- Stephen Fry on Experience
- That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.
- Prem Rawat on Experience
- That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.
- Dee Dee Myers on Experience
- That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.
- Liev Schreiber on Experience
- The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
- Sigmund Freud on Experience
- The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
- Jodi Picoult on Experience
- The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
- Susan Sontag on Experience
- The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
- Ai Weiwei on Experience
- The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.
- Tiger Woods on Experience
- The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
- John Dewey on Experience
- The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
- Ray Bradbury on Experience
- The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.
- David Cameron on Experience
- The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.
- Dan Savage on Experience
- The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
- Margaret Fuller on Experience
- The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
- Orville Wright on Experience
- The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
- Peter Hammill on Experience
- The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
- Vaclav Havel on Experience
- The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
- Rainer Maria Rilke on Experience
- The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
- John Stuart Mill on Experience
- The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
- Alfred Adler on Experience
- The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
- Gary Gygax on Experience
- The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
- Denis Waitley on Experience
- The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
- R. D. Laing on Experience
- The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
- Samuel Smiles on Experience
- The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.
- Andrew Mason on Experience
- The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
- Sally Ride on Experience
- The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
- Jimmy Carter on Experience
- The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
- Alice Walker on Experience
- The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
- Franz Kafka on Experience
- The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.
- Isabel Allende on Experience
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