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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Children Contempt Breeds

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Contempt Breeds Familiarity Breeds

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage Everything Monster Must

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

Charles de Gaulle

Mystery Without Contempt Prestige

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Strangers Admiration

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

Ideas Begin Then Most

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

William Hazlitt

Edge May Admiration Though

Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.

Relationship You Words Speak

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

Business Doctor Think Nothing

What's comfortable to me is familiarity. Comfort has nothing to do with the size of the garment. I do find something quite comfortable and charming in a too-narrow shoulder, a sleeve that's too short or too long, a pant that's too high or too low, hems that are trod on.

Me Long Short Nothing

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What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that illusion because, oftentimes, you encounter people who have encountered you, but you haven't encountered them. It's a little weird to find your footing.

You People World Weird

I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'

Man I Am Like Some

A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.

Karen Salmansohn

You Thinking Decision Feel

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Good Man Wife Together

Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity.

Eyes Experience People World

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?

Trust You People Together

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Best Sometimes Answer Deepest

The public was used to a Pauly Shore film coming out every year or two, you understand? So when that went away, the public lost familiarity with me.

Me You Understand Lost

When you have parents that come from a country that you weren't raised in, you feel this weird sense of familiarity, like you've returned to something.

You Parents Feel Weird

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

Debbie Reynolds

Peace Long Boredom Get

The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.

Good People Television End

Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but the humanities should be a part of our repertory. They may not enrich our wallets, but they do enrich our lives. They civilize us. They provide context.

Nicholas Kristof

Religion School Language Think

It is okay to experiment with language. Writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf experimented with writing, but basically, one must have a familiarity with the language. And to have that, one must respect it.

Respect Language Writing Okay

I grew up with reggae. Reggae is like family. I know it, and there's a type of love and familiarity, but sometimes you want to hang out with other people.

Love Family You People

Stars work because of familiarity. They fill theatres because audiences know who they are. There is a brand equity. But there are films strong enough to not need stars, or films that should not be made with stars at all, where only fresh faces will do. So I make the decisions accordingly.

Ram Gopal Varma

Work Stars Strong Know

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.

Success Day Failure Time

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