Familiar Quotes - Page 19

• East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?

  Steven Knight

  Organization, People, Evil

  Source: deadline.com

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• For people who aren't familiar with my background, I didn't graduate high school. My career high salary was about $200,000. My last position was about $122,000. For a guy without a high school diploma, that's pretty good.

  Edward Snowden

  School, Careers, People

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase "save his people from their sins," but Joseph would have. He was familiar with the Hebrew language.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Names, People

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• It was amazing how much their [Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Shauna Robertson] process seemed familiar to me, translating that into the work that I had done and giving actors a lot of freedom and doing a lot of improvisation and a total respect and collaboration with all the department heads and all the crews, and just really making it an enjoyable industry rather than just clocking in and doing a job which a lot of movies are.

  Seth Rogen

  Jobs, Giving, Collaboration

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• I categorically deny that. The American left today as I know it - and believe me, I am very familiar with the American left - is going toward authoritarianism, toward totalitarianism. It's becoming the real right in the United States.

  Murray Bookchin

  Real, Believe, Today

  Source: reason.com

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• The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the real experience of jazz takes place. I'm not familiar with the Boswell Sisters.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Real, Jazz, Reason

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.

  Linus Torvalds

  Looks, Way, Firsts

  "10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds". www.linuxfoundation.org. April 6, 2015.

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• Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive. And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.

  Alan Bersin

  Mother, Wall, Texas

  Source: www.salon.com

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• [Buzzing at the Sill] deals with the margins of America, a lot of parts unseen. Well, parts that are seen and familiar to a lot of the populace, but unseen when it comes to the parameters of what mainstream news and popular culture and Hollywood reflects.

  Peter van Agtmael

  America, Unseen, Hollywood

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• The political and social processes by which the Western European societies were put in order are not very apparent, have been forgotten, or have become habitual. They are part of our most familiar landscape, and we don't perceive them anymore. But most of them once scandalized people.

  Michel Foucault

  Order, People, Political

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the Godfather produces some kind of edict and says you're going to have to pay protection money.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mafia, Pay, Kind

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as unjust. And when we affirm this judgment, we're not merely saying that all those people who owned slaves were unethical people; they shouldn't have done that. We do believe this, but that's only part of the point. We also believe that the fugitive slave laws were unjust.

  Thomas Pogge

  Believe, Law, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People are more comfortable with the familiar. It takes selling a big dream that comes with excellent income possibility to get someone to leave his or her comfort zone.

  Philip Kotler

  Dream, People, Comfort

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.

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• We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything that he said was not necessarily what we were thinking. That doesn't mean it was wrong, but Leach was a person out of a different generation.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Mean, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Christian Research Institute will continue doing what we do ... making people so familiar with truth that when counterfeits loom on the horizon, they know it instantaneously. So we're a discernment ministry, continually trying to build Christians up so that they can discern between truth and error.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Errors, People

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I see parallels between Karachi and the cities that I was familiar with: a very different place, but in terms of its human stories not really very different at all. That was what excited me about the place - that it was so complex, as difficult to me as an outsider and yet so human in a way that was ultimately very familiar.

  Steve Inskeep

  Different, Outsiders, Excited

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that we, as writers, get excited by risk. When we are feeling comfortable and familiar, I wouldn't say that we get bored, but the energy in the room gets flat. When we're most excited and when the show is the most fun, it's when we're duking things out.

  Damon Lindelof

  Fun, Thinking, Bored

  Source: collider.com

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• In comedy you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.

  Michael Che

  People, Comedy, Fraternity

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It's kind of like being a writer in the sense that you always hear other writers say, 'Well, the best way to start writing is to just start writing.' The same goes for improvisation. You want to start improvising, just start playing notes. And the more you do that, the more comfortable - or not comfortable - but I guess how you're able to adapt to situations. You become more familiar with your instrument. As soon as you have a musical thought, you can go ahead and add to that musical thought and know your way around.

  Jherek Bischoff

  Writing, Musical, Kind

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We can cooperate more easily with those who more easily intelligible to us, who are more familiar to us. But the advantages of specialization of labor often push us in the direction working with people who have different strengths and viewpoints than we do. I think that this is one major reason why moralities are always subject to change, because some of the people we cooperate with are going to be different from us in ways that often lead them to have different value orientations than we have; and interacting with them can change us.

  David Wong

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Housing in New York seemed to fit Norman Lear. In addition, his shows confronted all kinds of social issues - racial separation and prejudice being foremost among them. The Evans of Good Times were the first black family to be the focus of a primetime American TV show. A lot of the people we came across in filming were familiar with the role Norman played in catalyzing important national conversations about race. They seemed grateful to him for trying to move the needle.

  Solly Granatstein

  Moving, Grateful, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That was in 1994, July, 1994, and I can remember that like it was yesterday too because it was the culmination of a childhood dream to finally be laying on the launch pad inside a space shuttle and getting ready to be launched into space. The impression of going into a space shuttle is that it looks like a brand new simulator. We spend so many hours inside a simulator that everything is very familiar. Every switch, the seats, the way things work, but the vehicle, the actual spacecraft looks brand new because it hasn't been used nearly as much as the simulators.

  Leroy Chiao

  Dream, Childhood, Remember

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Steve Hadley is an interesting option as secretary of state because he is somebody that is, you know, familiar to power, served in the White House, and did not oppose Donald Trump the way a lot of the Republican foreign policy establishment did. But his name was not on that list, at least at the moment.

  Susan Page

  Interesting, House, Republican

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• For Coca-Cola, they wanted a hippie-looking girl to walk around the city with a bucket of chicken sitting in Central Park, sitting on Central Park South, walking along all these different areas of New York that people are familiar with, and just eating this bucket of chicken. I got that commercial too. I think it was just part of my personality that was different from just a regular, nice-looking girl that was more of a model-y type. I injected a little more energy into everything I did.

  P. J. Soles

  Girl, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You try to go with something that's familiar to people and that way they can jump on board with what you're trying to do basically. I only mimic people that really have like interesting voices because it's really hard to mimic like someone who just talks regularly like me like there's nothing fun about that.

  Kenan Thompson

  Fun, People, Interesting

  "Kenan Thompson Talks Saturday Night Live and Psych". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 17, 2009.

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