Familiar Quotes - Page 16

• When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need to feel special in some way.

  Roger Housden

  Self, Special, Overcoming

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

  Roger Housden

  Self, Everyday, Dimensions

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• What I think the appeal of the [Donald] Trump program has been is that it offers some kind of concrete, specific, historically rooted, a familiar image of how ordinary Americans, regular Americans can earn their living.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, Ordinary, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current management, Jack Welch before Jeff Immelt. I've known him for decades.

  Warren Buffett

  Might, Management, Investment

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I`m just learning that according to a source familiar with the transition process, President-elect Donald Trump intends to select Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  President, Transition, Select

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When I'm working, I get super lazy and I just do something that I'm familiar with.

  Devon Windsor

  Lazy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Magic, Events, Daily Life

  Source: observer.com

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• I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.

  Manning Marable

  Development, Stage, Certain

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• I wasn't familiar with Patti [Smith ]much at all. When I was asked to photograph her, my wife said, "Oh my God, Patti Smith!" So I looked at some Robert Mapplethorpe books and I recognized those pictures.

  Steven Sebring

  Book, Wife, Photograph

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm going to wait for the confirmation hearings. I'm familiar with General [John Francis ] Kelly because of my work on the Armed Services Committee. I think he is a fine general and I want to make sure that he has a handle on some of the complicated issues that are contained within Homeland Security.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Issues, Waiting

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I had some people who disagreed with me here or there - but nothing as strong as I've received, you know, coming to America. That is the irony of life, so I guess - I always tell people - I go I feel like in a strange way, I'm home. You know, this doesn't shock me. This is just - I've come a long way to be in a place that is extremely familiar to me.

  Trevor Noah

  Strong, Home, America

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties.

  Barack Obama

  Media, People, Anxiety

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm not that familiar with Andrew Garfield, but if the powers that be chose him, I'm sure he'll be good.

  Stan Lee

  Garfield, Andrew, Be Good

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• I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Children, Writing, Adults

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• I haven't been familiar with hard work. It was no problem for me. But first I hitchhiked to Pontiac, Mich. and got a job working in Fisher Body making those 1951 Pontiacs.

  Johnny Cash

  Jobs, Hard Work, Body

  Source: wrvo.org

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• I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves.

  Byron Katie

  People, World, Hearing

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do a talk on free speech.I went into a coffee shop to get a piece of pie and a coffee, and I was reading a paper and I hear a voice. And it was -it was not a voice I was familiar with, but I looked across the table and I saw Lilian Ross.And sitting next to her was William Shawn - no tie, needed a shave. His voice was kind of coarse and rather loud. He wasn't drunk, but I was just stunned.

  Nat Hentoff

  Reading, Coffee, Men

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• For Michael [Bay] and I [ Transformers: The Last Knight ] is our third movie so we're quite familiar with each other and know where to push each other and bring the best out of each other. But I'm definitely not as young as I used to be, that's the biggest difference.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Knights, Differences, Lasts

  Source: collider.com

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• I think I would call Night Music a romantic comedy. I don't know if you are familiar with an old movie called The Ghost and Mrs. Muir? It is an older film. It's more about the romance than it is necessarily a horror flick.

  Boti Bliss

  Thinking, Night, Romance

  Source: actionflickchick.com

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• Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that the slogans will be passionately proclaimed as they are drained of substantive content. We happen to be living in such an era, but as often before, there is no reason to suppose that the process is irreversible.

  Noam Chomsky

  Intellectual, Eras, Sometimes

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• 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."

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Political, United States

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• 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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• I think if you worked at the community level in Chicago and then a politician on the South Side of Chicago, and worked at the state level, then you're pretty familiar with all the variations of politics in the African American community and criticisms you may get. If you're not familiar with those or you don't have a thick enough skin to take it, then you probably wouldn't have gotten here.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Community, African American

  Source: www.theatlantic.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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