Familiar Quotes - Page 34

• National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.

  Lois Capps

  Osteoporosis, Prevention, May

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• The crew members for 'The Price Is Right' at night are the same guys who work 'Y&R' during the day. It's even in the same studio. I've been in the place for 15 years. So all the faces at 'The Price Is Right' are familiar.

  Doug Davidson

  Night, Years, Guy

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• Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Block, Book, Writing

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• The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Solitude, Listening, Age

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• No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

  Piers Anthony

  Character, Aspect, Novel

  Interview with Dag R., www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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• I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel... I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.

  Alan Bradley

  Fun, Book, Character

  "Book Talk: Alan Bradley on young sleuths and TV series". March 8, 2013, www.reuters.com. Interview with Noreen O'Donnell.

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• Now 'Boondock II,' people are gonna see it because they liked the first one. There won't be very many people who go see it who aren't familiar with the first one.

  Sean Patrick Flanery

  People, Firsts, Boondocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We don't have to go to wild places to find wildlife. A surprisingly wide range of species can be found in our sities and towns, from familiar animals like the raccoon to more exotic ones like the mountain lion.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Nature, Animal, Wild Places

  Sarah Landry, Roger Tory Peterson (1998). “Peterson First Guide to Urban Wildlife”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe Nature does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Reflection, Desire

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'

  Gustave Flaubert

  Science, Men, Doctors

  Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.

  Anthony Giddens

  Risk, Body, Injury

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.130, John Wiley & Sons

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• Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney filtration rates, lower resistance of the immune system, and loss of memory. The list could be extended almost indefinitely. Evolution seems indeed to have arranged things so that all our systems deteriorate, and that we invest in repair only as much as we are worth.

  Jared Diamond

  Life, Memories, Lying

  Jared Diamond (2013). “The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee”, p.118, Random House

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• The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Needs, Citizens

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.480, Best Books on

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• Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Fall, Jumping, Stripes

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• When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

  Bruno Heller

  Cheer, Hard Times, Tvs

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• I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

  Colin Hanks

  Way, Planets, 1960s

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Ideas, Diversity, People

  "The moral roots of liberals and conservatives". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2008.

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• I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.

  Nina Hagen

  Dream, Teacher, Worry

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• Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Play, Credibility, Ifs

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• It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.

  Kerry King

  Fun, Home, Cities

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• Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

  David Naughton

  Musical, Theatre, Musical Theatre

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• If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

  Marc Newson

  Emotional, Giving, Important

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• Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Simple, Two, Intellectual

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• I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  People, Faces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

  Ashley Rickards

  Light, Play, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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