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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

~Charles De Gaulle

Topics: Breeds Contempt Familiarity Mystery Prestige Without

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How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

~Chris Sacca

Topics: Build Else Enough Eyes Familiarity How Imagine Someone Something Them Through World You

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I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

~Christopher Walken

Topics: Also Based Because Business Doctor Early Familiarity Going Knew Lot Nothing Show Show Business Skills Think Want Wanted I Think T

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It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

~David Foster Wallace

Topics: Familiarity Find Important Most Ourselves Reminding Seems Ways

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I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

~David Knopfler

Topics: Always Certain Contemplation Enter Every Every Time Familiarity Feel Had Like Magic Me Never Off Place Spiritual Stepping Studio Time Worn I Feel I Feel Like

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With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

~Dean Ornish

Topics: Away Built Communities Community Everything Faded Familiarity Fingertips Help Imagine Interactions Many Our Past People Relationships Social Thing Tie Together Trust You

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I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

~Debbie Reynolds

Topics: Boredom Even Familiarity Get Long Peace Sense Wanted

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It really, truly is sad when it's over, man. To not have that regularness, that familiarity. I love working in television because of that. It's like going to see your family every day.

~Drea De Matteo

Topics: Because Day Every Every Day Familiarity Family Going Like Love Man Over Really Sad See Television Truly Working Your I Love

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Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

~Gavin Newsom

Topics: Business Business World Capital Daunting Entrepreneurs Familiarity Great Great Idea Idea Out Process Real Start Who World

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Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

~George Sand

Topics: Admiration Familiarity Strangers

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