Familiar Quotes
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To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to...
Michael Oakeshott
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.
Joseph Addison
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison
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I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Bill Lovejoy
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Bill Lovejoy
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
Benjamin Franklin
Subject: Civilization Quotes :: Familiarity QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
Mark Twain
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Paula is a sweet lady and a great addition to the family. I`m not really familiar with her music, and I`ve said this to her face. We had a party at the house for my sister, Renee, and (my) Dad said, `Charlie, put on some Paula Abdul, I don`t own any of he...
Charlie Sheen
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When asked if she made a profit from the Wonder Woman dolls, "I think that you`re probably familiar with a problem in Hollywood, and that is that they market you and they use you. They did a mask of my face and put it on the doll and they put my name on f...
Lynda Carter
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On the best and worst part about playing a Star Trek captain: "The best thing was simply the privilege and the challenge of being able to take a shot at the first female captain, transcending stereotypes that I was very familiar with. [I was] able to do t...
Kate Mulgrew
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Look, I like people very much. I`m not very good with people, but that doesn`t mean I don`t like them. I do like them. Because we actors are on that great big screen and so many people see us, we become familiar. People speak to us as if they`ve known us ...
Wilford Brimley
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I go, `God, you know, it all sounds so familiar. I know what you`re saying, I really do. I just cannot respond to you back in Spanish. I can barely speak English properly.` I didn`t grow up in a Cuban or Latin community. I grew up in Southern California o...
Cameron Diaz
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When you say fear of the unknown, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it`s genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we`re not familiar with it, and that keeps you sa...
M. Shyamalan
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I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn`t like the film - fair cop. Others, I think, didn`t understand it.
Guy Ritchie
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I`m an actor not a movie star. I prefer it that way. I think when you watch big stars on screen; it`s really difficult to look beyond that very familiar persona. As an actor, you can play different characters and not be recognized. I know I`ve got parts t...
Toni Collette
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I needed to go and just find out exactly what it meant to be out and having fun in a kind of hedonistic and debauched environment. That`s right, something I wasn`t familiar with. [on researching for Moulin Rouge]
Ewan McGregor
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Your client was familiar with him and had seen him earlier that day. While we were there (known substance abusers) came to the back door asking about him.
Paul Hunter
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You`re talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I`ve never really been a dater.
Stockard Channing
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You`re always going to think, Should I have done every single thing I was offered? Should I maybe have taken more familiar kinds of roles?
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
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You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it`s going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.
Danny Elfman
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When you`re young, the more you do something, the more familiar it becomes, the more comfortable you are with it. You know how it is.
Angela Kohler
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When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it`s a very special thing. What`s familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love ; it doesn`t happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they`re suddenly together.
Alfre Woodard
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When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I`ve said it over and over again. I think it is boring.
Johnny Mathis
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When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.
Sophie Marceau
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When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I`m familiar with. I don`t write stories about the nineteenth century.
Satyajit Ray
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We`ve been studying this play for a while now, so we feel like we are pretty familiar with it. It should be a lot of fun.
Sarah Wilson
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We loved it. The kids have uniforms with the likeness of a cat. The cheer is like letting out a mountain lion growl. Unlike the higher leagues that have familiar names like the Yankees or Dodgers, this is unique.
Aurora Greenway
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We know that when guests are familiar with Disney stories and characters they will enjoy the park even more, and want to come back again.
Don Robinson
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We here are very familiar with the program, ... We think it`s a great option but leave it up to the customer to decide whether or not they wish to put that in their phones.
Ashok Singhal
