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You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.

Music is subjective to everyone unique 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.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it is complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he is able to keep processing that as well.

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we are a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It is simply about life experience.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It is a very subjective experience. And I am loyal to that experience.

Experience is not interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one identity as a being of worth and dignity.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I was not a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I really do love Diana Ross I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

Producing is just a big learning experience.