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In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to music and art and literature, I just wanted to go somewhere less familiar - somewhere bigger (Familiar Quotes)
Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid (Familiar Quotes)
Going abroad to study as a teenager, and joining the United Nations at 22, confirmed my ease with the world of the frequent flyer. I saw the average airport terminal as a familiar haven, like a friend’s sitting room. But 9/11 changed all that (Familiar Quotes)
The world looks at China as a big place with a lot of people, a good place to make money. And because so many Chinese families send their kids abroad to study, they are familiar with foreign cultures, so Hollywood films are very successful in China (Familiar Quotes)
Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time. (Familiar Quotes)
It’s often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we’re going to bed at night and we’re all very familiar with it. (Familiar Quotes)
I’m extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners. (Familiar Quotes)
As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure. (Familiar Quotes)
Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy. (Familiar Quotes)
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. (Familiar Quotes)
I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me. (Familiar Quotes)
Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they’re not sexual. (Familiar Quotes)
People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people. (Familiar Quotes)
I can’t go to sleep unless I’ve watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels familiar. It’s like a lullaby. (Familiar Quotes)
It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that The architects of power in the United States must create a force that can be felt but not seen. (Familiar Quotes)
I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier. (Familiar Quotes)
We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I’ve created pays tribute both to the messenger’s noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility. (Familiar Quotes)
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar tumble-bug. It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. (Familiar Quotes)
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature’s fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness. (Familiar Quotes)
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. (Familiar Quotes)
There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor of an anti-terrorism conference, because there are people who say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. (Familiar Quotes)
The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age. (Familiar Quotes)
Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It’s resonant because it is made of the stuff that we see every day. It’s familiar. It reflects our reality. (Familiar Quotes)
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar (Familiar Quotes)
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. (Familiar Quotes)
It’s the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future. (Familiar Quotes)
When I first met Big, we were both at a ‘Bad Boy’ family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn’t that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn’t know that was him. He said he didn’t even know I was an artist on ‘Bad Boy.’ (Familiar Quotes)
The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring. (Familiar Quotes)
We’re all really happy with what’s familiar. But what’s inevitable in life is change. That’s what life is. (Familiar Quotes)
You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons. (Familiar Quotes)