Quotes about Experience

I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines and had a blast. The most memorable was going to Barcelona on a whim and scalping tickets at the Olympics to the Dream Team Quarterfinals.

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 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.

All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I've pitched in a lot of different roles in my career. I've been the middle-inning guy. I've been a lefty matchup guy. I've closed. I've kind of done a little bit of everything.

I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schoolingTo get adapted to my kind of fooling.