#liar

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

— Charles de Gaulle

#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds #mystery #prestige

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#originality #plagiarizing #something #unfamiliar #usually

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#companions #days #faces #familiar #gone

It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with. ↗

— Joe Lando

#because #before #difficult #familiar #get

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#becomes #certain #certain age #commonplace #death

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#character #develops #every #exaggerated #express

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to. ↗

— Jude Law

#familiar #go #here #home #i

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#believe #deny #i #i am #i believe

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #lot #mainstream #only #population

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends. ↗

— Ang Lee

#chinese #culture #days #familiar #friends