Quotes: Experience

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn’t. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn’t know what it was like to be in a civil rights march. We could actually take you into that experience, so that you could better appreciate what happened and why it happened.

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it’s for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.