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“I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.”

People Want Faces Messages Islam Familiar Something New Familiar Faces

“Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.”

Community Familiar Sunday Territory Afternoon Parish Sunday Afternoons Community Centers Parish Priest

“Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.”

Ideas Choices Culture Comfortable Worship Familiar Refuge

Author:Hugh Mackay

“Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.”

Persons Able Wish President Effort Leader Practice Policy Structure Familiar Administration Transition Closest Staffing

Author:Richard V. Allen

“In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.”

Knows Israel Familiar

Author:Ehud Barak

“Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.”

Environment College Comfortable Leaving Starting Familiar Fresh Start

Author:Jason Biggs

“When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.”

Looks Earth Order Chance Strange Moon Familiar Evolve Horizon Curves

Author:Gene Cernan

“One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.”

Ifs Giving Feels May Dream Emotion Situation Information Familiar New Life Mundane Tracking New Relationship

Author:Jennifer Carpenter

“I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.”

Fashion Style Industry Clothes Familiar Innocent Fashion Industry

Author:Lenora Crichlow

“I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.”

People Way Feels Important Different Familiar Different Ways

Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson

“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.”

May Nations Chance Deals Steps Effects Awareness Months Disease Familiar Prevention Osteoporosis

Author:Lois Capps

“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.”

Years Faces Night Guy Members Studios Familiar Crew

Author:Doug Davidson

“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.”

Way Writing Trying Book Matter Bigs Subjects Style Best Way Familiar Block Genre Subject Matter Looming

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.”

Want Mind Eye Remember Memories Space Known Journey Method Tricks Familiar Palaces

Author:Joshua Foer

“The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.”

“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.”

Character Novel Aspect Casts Backgrounds Familiar

Author:Piers Anthony

“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.”

Trying Years Book Character Hands Would Be Form Fun Novel Mystery Type Reader Familiar Classic Mystery Novels

Author:Alan Bradley

“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.”

People Firsts Familiar Boondocks

Author:Sean Patrick Flanery

“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.”

Found Nature Animal Mountain Towns Species Wide Familiar Range Lions Wildlife Exotic Raccoons Wild Places

Book:Peterson First Guide to Urban Wildlife

Source: Peterson First Guide to Urban Wildlife

“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.”

Ifs Knows Doe Science Desire Term Results Know How Reflection Difficulty Blind Familiar Psychological Vain Behave Perpetual Delightful Torment Drains Nobody Knows Alleys

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“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.'”

Men Science Enjoy Term Conversation Doctors Balls Familiar Ass Wizards Quip Scalpels

Book:Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

Source: Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

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

Body Risk Possibility Familiar Injury Surroundings

Book:Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“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.”

Life Heart Seems Lying Memories Loss Evolution Rate Bones Lists Resistance Familiar Immune Decrease Immune System Kidneys Weakening Arteries Filtration

Book:The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee

Source: The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee

“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.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

“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.”

Knows Fall Example Fundamentals Familiar Agents Evolve Indian Genes Organisms Jumping Corn Stripes

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“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.”

Kind Hard One Thing Tvs Familiar Hard Times Cheer Realistic Positiveness

Author:Bruno Heller

“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.”

Way Feels Planets Familiar Fascinated 1960s

Author:Colin Hanks

“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.”

People Ideas Facts Personality Higher Safe Diversity Majors Lows Familiar Variety Openness Traits New Ideas Crave Novelty Dependable Personality Traits

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“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.”

Should Said Important Dream Worry Teacher Masters Familiar

Author:Nina Hagen

“Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.”

Together Fall Letting Go Familiar New Life Falling Apart

Author:Bryant H. McGill

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

Ifs Play Familiar Credibility

Author:Rickie Lee Jones

“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.”

Home Given Fun Cities Familiar Away From Home Home Away From Home

Author:Kerry King

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