Quotes About Experience

I've been really fortunate to go, and it's exciting. You're going to the White House. I remember first walking into the room to meet President Obama and the aura... It's insane.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

I have known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and I worked closely with President George W. Bush and the White House then after 9/11, and I served with President Obama. I disagree with all three of those presidents on certain things.

I moved out eventually of the White House and moved into a townhouse with a group of girls while I was in college.

I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.

I feel pretty good right now at the age of soon-to-be 31.

I've read about actors trying to prevent their kids from getting into it, and I think that's from what they themselves experienced in the industry.

I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can.

I experienced Nazism as a child. Like many of my generation, I was motivated by the desire to prevent another war at any price.

Technology is improving to prevent musicians from losing their hearing while performing on stage... audience members losing their hearing from listening to loud music... people being able to experience music not just with their ears, but with touch or with through their eyes.

My first kiss was onscreen. My character learned to drive before I did, so when they asked me to hit the mark with that giant Lincoln, I hit the camera instead. Being an actor gives an interesting perspective on life. And in my case, an interesting preview.

We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then.

Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.

I studiously avoid any academic dissections of the play and any kind of previous experience of playing. For me, it's all in the play.