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  • Muqtada al Sadr on experience

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    “Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.” -Muqtada al Sadr

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  • Ian Mckellen on experience

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    “Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you’re playing through your own experience – so we’re all different.” -Ian Mckellen

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  • Rob Sheffield on experience

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    “Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. ‘The CBS Evening News,’ ‘ABC World News’ and ‘NBC Nightly News’ haven’t changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren’t watching.” -Rob Sheffield

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  • Walter Pater on experience

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    “Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.” -Walter Pater

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  • Paul Feig on experience

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    “The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, it’s impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you can’t just go, ‘Hey, there’s a great movie – we’re not going to show you anything from it but trust

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  • Michael Haneke on experience

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    “You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they

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  • John Berger on experience

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    “Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.” -John Berger

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  • Bill Murray on experience

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    “People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It’s over the day that child is born. It’s over, and something completely new starts.” -Bill Murray

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  • William Whewell on experience

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    “Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.” -William Whewell

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  • Ingrid Newkirk on experience

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    “Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women’s rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.” -Ingrid Newkirk

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  • Robert M. Pirsig on experience

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    “Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.” -Robert M. Pirsig

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  • Mike Mills on experience

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    “My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more.

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  • Mayer Hawthorne on experience

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    “When you’re a soul singer, I’m singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get ’em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that’s never been my experience.” -Mayer Hawthorne

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  • Fergie on experience

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    “I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me – I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They’re very calm, they’re all about positive energy. There’re no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there

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  • Ayelet Waldman on experience

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    “By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.” -Ayelet Waldman

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  • Chris O’Dowd on experience

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    “I mean, I’m an uncle of seven or eight, and I don’t mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!” -Chris O’Dowd

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  • Stanislav Grof on experience

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    “Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.” -Stanislav Grof

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  • T. D. Jakes on experience

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    “I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.” -T. D. Jakes

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  • Franklin P. Jones on experience

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    “Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” -Franklin P. Jones

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  • Andrew Greeley on experience

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    “An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who’s kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.” -Andrew Greeley

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  • Cynthia Nixon on experience

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    “I feel that between my experience and my mother’s, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.” -Cynthia Nixon

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  • Vince Cable on experience

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    “My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.” -Vince Cable

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  • Stan Smith on experience

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    “Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.” -Stan Smith

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  • Rainn Wilson on experience

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    “I think we’re the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It’s not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be

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  • Nicki Minaj on experience

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    “I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I’ve got so many followers that I’m not able to see them that much. I’ll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.” -Nicki Minaj

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