Life Experience Quotes - Page 5

• To come home and share life experiences with friends is the key to what makes me feel really alive.

  James Blunt

  Home, Keys, Alive

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• You sing songs hundreds of times over and over, but certain ones just morph and naturally, as you age and get life experience, take on a different form as well. When I was looking at songs for the album, I thought, "Which are the ones that connect with me the most? What do I think would work in album form?" Almost all of them I've done in shows.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Song, Thinking, Age

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Joy, Zealous, Littles

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• Well, we studied a lot of books and things like that. Denzel has a personal experience with it, not himself, that's his business-I won't get into that, but he knows a lot about it as well. So, we took some real life experiences that we both-I've been told that I have OCD.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Real, Book, Ocd

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks THE EQUALIZER, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes from the 80s Series, and More on Set". Group interview, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness of the residents. Because they had no rich lives beyond the hospital, they assumed no one else did, either. In the end, what they lacked was not medical knowledge but ordinary life experience.

  Michael Crichton

  Rich Life, Medical Knowledge, Facts

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.108, Vintage

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• Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.

  William J. Clinton

  Beautiful, Fun, Crazy

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• When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

  Timothy B. Schmit

  Talking, Band, Compromise

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• In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Believe, Facts, Permit

  "In Sotomayor Hearings, Jeff Sessions Was Fixated on Discrimination Against White People". www.motherjones.com. November 28, 2016.

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• That's why we have appellate judges that are more than one judge because each of us, from our life experiences, will more easily see different perspectives argued by parties. But judges do consider all of the arguments of litigants. I have. Most of my opinions, if not all of them, explain to parties by the law requires what it does.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Party, Law, Perspective

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something I've been working on all of my life. I couldn't have written this novel at twenty or thirty, for technical reasons - I didn't have the technique then - but above all because I didn't have the life experiences I have now at sixty-seven.

  Jaume Cabre

  Real, Character, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I read a ton of nonfiction. I tend to read about a lot of very extreme situations, life-or-death situations. I'm very interested in books about Arctic exploration or about doomed Apollo missions. I tend to read a lot of nonfiction that's sort of hyperbolic and visceral. And then I kind of draw on my own personal experiences and my own sort of generic life experience, and I kind of try to feed my day-to-day reality that I have with sort of high stakes reference points that I read about. They're things everyone can relate to.

  Simon Rich

  Book, Reality, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm sure that like anybody else, I'm probably the sum total of my life experiences. If I'm smart and I've gained any wisdom, I have learned something from each of those experiences including different jobs I've taken throughout my life. The problem is, sometimes you don't realize you've learned something until maybe years later.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Smart, Taken, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Speaking Out is honest about some of the challenges posed by speaking out and looks at possible responses and coping strategies. By comparing notes, we can help guide each other through what can be challenging life experiences.

  Tara Moss

  Challenges, Honest, Helping

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I never really put pressure on myself to make things seem new and spontaneous, mostly because I think everything is kind of derivative at this point. I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies. Those relationships are kind of where I've gotten inspiration for this character and this relationship. But I think what makes it new is just the words coming out of my mouth personally, and my take on it based on my own personal life experience is hopefully going to add something a little different, and add some flavor to it.

  Judy Greer

  Girl, Friday, Baby

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do. That is where you get your power. That is our power as a group. I am not trying to make the same music I made 10 years ago.

  El-P

  Trying, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.

  Billy Bragg

  Thinking, People, Voting

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Now I do feel like I have something to say. The book [How to Be a Bawse] is a guide on how to not just survive life but to conquer it. And it's based on my life experiences, all the people I've met, all the things I've learned from those people, being in the weird situations that I get in.

  Lilly Singh

  Book, People, I've Learned

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I had a life experience that most of my - that none of my friends had. I remember I became everybody's rabbi. Everybody who needed advice would talk to me, and it became an obvious thing.

  Jeff Ross

  Obvious Things, Advice, Remember

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We're different men [with Donald Trump], different life experiences. But I've always been struck by our common heritage. His grandfather immigrated to this country just like my grandfather. His dad was a self-made businessman, who built up a business with his two hands. And my dad followed his dreams to Columbus, Indiana, helped build a small business in that town.

  Mike Pence

  Dream, Country, Dad

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own life experiences. As someone who is "newly" trans, I am constantly thinking about what the dominant narratives are around transness, how my work can push against these narratives, and how it already falls into these traps.

  Vivek Shraya

  Fall, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In life, you're supposed to get wiser, so as an actor, even just through your own life experiences, you're already richer as a person and have more to pull on. And this job is great for the places it takes you to, the things it makes you interested in and the skills you get to learn.

  Elaine Cassidy

  Jobs, Skills, Actors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important. The thing is, I suppose, a younger person may not correctly divine the right time, because of lack of life experience, so the older woman may have the advantage of truly knowing if it's right or not.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Commitment, Knowing, Giving

  Source: us.hellomagazine.com

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• Different presidents have different strengths, they bring different life experiences.

  Hillary Clinton

  President, Different, Different Life

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I am out of practice at living.
  You are as brave as a motorcycle.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Practice, Brave

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.258, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't stand by the understanding of that statement that I will ignore other facts or other experiences because I haven't had them. I do believe that life experiences are important to the process of judging - They help you to understand and listen - but that the law requires a result. And it would command you to the facts that are relevant to the disposition of the case.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Believe, Law, Judging

  "Sotomayor hearings: The complete transcript, Part 1". latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 14, 2009.

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