Type Quotes - Page 28

• I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.

  Malin Akerman

  Bars, Want, Restaurants

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

  Jason Aldean

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Listening

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• I'm the kind of person who just can't wait to get on a train and not know where I'm going. I definitely want to live life to the fullest. And that's the type of man I'm attracted to - somebody with that spontaneous spirit.

  Summer Altice

  Life, Men, Waiting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.

  Walter Annenberg

  Independent, Editors, Special

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• I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Guy, Twists, My Own

  "Talking with Our Mouths Full: Carmelo Anthony". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.

  Piers Anthony

  Years, Fiction, Want

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• There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Passion, Two, People

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• I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it's almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Next Day, Waiting

  "Paul Auster talks" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2008.

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• Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

  Irving Babbitt

  Leader, Revolution, Destined

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• I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

  David Bailey

  Shocked

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• I've never really been the type of person who worries much about what people think of me.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Thinking, People, Worry

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• If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.

  Antonio Banderas

  Sexy, Dog, Moving

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• Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

  Antonio Banderas

  Honesty, Thinking, Careers

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

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• My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

  Travis Barker

  Mom, Redneck, Different

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• It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Perfect, Would Be, Satanic

  "Intimate Journals: Fusées". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1867.

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• To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

  Max Beerbohm

  Lady Macbeth, Host, Standing Out

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.67, New York Review of Books

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• My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.'

  Annie Besant

  Writing, Character, Two

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume ... to do something with your body. When singing in concert you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Moving, Singing, Body

  "Andrea Bocelli: 'Only preparation helps my stagefright'" by Andrea Bocelli, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Heart, Choices, Racing

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• The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Blood, Sight, People

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• There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Military, Home, People

  "The Omnivore’s Agenda: An Interview with Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. November, 2010.

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• However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

  David Bowie

  Running, Song, Strong

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interveiw, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

  Brandon Boyd

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

  Jo Brand

  Hard Work, Nurse, People

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• There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

  Jo Brand

  Two, People, World

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