Human Experience Quotes - Page 7

• No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, and standardizing the varieties of human experience.

  Michael Parenti

  Years, Practice, Culture

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• I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

  Andrew Lam

  Thinking, Narrative, Speak

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave their marks on one's face and bearing. A few lines on the face and a few gray hairs coupled with the idiosyncrasies an actor adopts throughout life help out round out the actor's personality. So far as I'm concerned, the older a character actor gets, the firmer his position is.

  Strother Martin

  Wine, Character, Player

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down to what we wear and whether we are seating in first class or coach-represents a negotiation of power somewhere on the scale of power that constitutes life.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Power, Class

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• God's Word does provide life lessons to teach us how to live. And it gives us beautiful poetry that gives voice to our human experience. And, yes, it does give us clear boundaries of what we should and shouldn't do so we can live our best lives.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Beautiful, Life Lesson, Voice

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I managed because of my mother. I managed because I'm strong. I managed the same way every other abuse survivor survives, you just do. So many people have been abused, it's not rare, it's a very common human experience, and we survive. Also, my music plays a big role in my thriving. Having an outlet, it really makes a difference.

  India.Arie

  Mother, Strong, Play

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The world doesn't grieve when you're grieving. The world goes on about its business. You're having a good day and I'm having a bad one and vice versa. And they could be very good and very bad at the same time. You multiply that by seven billion and you have one element of human experience.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Good Day, Grieving, World

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• Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

  Matthew Arnold

  Voice, Religion, Humans

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism”, p.12

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• There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Pain, Grief, Feelings

  “The Unsikable Jennifer Aniston” by Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. October 10, 2006.

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• I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.

  Elia Suleiman

  Views, World, Nazareth

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.

  Wole Soyinka

  Creative, Natural, Endeavour

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Doing a space walk. It is one of the most rare human experiences. To leave your spaceship and go outside, so that you are alone in the universe with Earth distant and the universe around you. That is amazing.

  Chris Hadfield

  Space, Earth, Walks

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Moving, Community

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• Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Decision, Tragedy, Humans

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.19, Penguin

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• There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They always had exaggerated canine teeth and a certain sort of expression. That led to speculation about whether at an earlier stage in the human experience we were hunted by some sort of carnivore.

  Jaron Lanier

  Expression, People, Enemy

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that finds expression in and is enshrined by the mystery religions.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Expression, Rejection

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• First and foremost, I want people on concerts to have a really great experience away from the negative press and negative stuff that you see on the news and Facebook. I don't even like seeing people's cell phones. Let's have a human experience and rub up against each other, you know.

  Mike Dirnt

  Phones, Cells, People

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the process of making a film can start to redress this balance and venture into uncharted territory. This is not just about unsung identities but about the subtleties and nuances of contemplation, the drifting spaces in which the worlds of the very small and the very large collide. Camerawork is a part of that.

  Sally Potter

  Space, Balance, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I really feel our job as actors is to find a human experience in the character. So, for me, genre comes second; it's about script and the emotional journey of that character. Genre definitely has an impact, but it has more of an impact on the way the character is expressed. We all have the same core emotions of love, jealousy, rage - it's just how they're expressed.

  Sophie Cookson

  Character, Journey, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Obstacles become monsters in your head; evil horrible creatures. Obstacles are sometimes good things. Sometimes they just ARE - not characterized as good or bad, but just as things like ancient mossy rocks that are a part of the human experience.

  Sameer Gadhia

  Evil, Obstacles, Sometimes

  Source: www.marandapleasantmedia.com

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• Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

  Jon Meacham

  Religious, Elements, Given

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• As I get older, I'm more willing to take on more, I guess. I feel more comfortable kind of being different characters and kind of stretching it a little more. Like with The Visitation. At least for me, being an actor, I have to draw from human experiences, so it was kind of a stretch playing that role. Kind of supernatural... kind of like what I did in The Crow actually.

  Edward Furlong

  Character, Being Different, Crow

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

  Lyman Abbott

  Divine, Humans

  Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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• I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.

  Erland Josephson

  Expression, Class, Skills

  "Erland Josephson obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2012.

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