Type Quotes - Page 38

• I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

  Venus Williams

  Overachiever, Just Do It

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2008.

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• As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Fighting, Doctors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

  Kenny Wormald

  Bullying, Issues, People

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• What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

  Steve Wozniak

  Running, Games, Play

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• It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Imagination, Interesting, People

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• There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.

  will.i.am

  Matter, No Matter What, Genre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to just make horror movies; I don't want to just make any type of movie - I don't just like horror movies, I love movies.

  Rob Zombie

  Movie Love, Want, Horror

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• Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Opportunity, People, Trying

  "The Future of Facebook". Interview with Laura Locke, content.time.com. July 17, 2007.

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• The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.

  Martin Filler

  Character, Style, Towers

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• From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.

  Helen Fisher

  Believe, Fall, People

  "Finding and Keeping the Love of Your Life". Article by Helen Fisher, www.oprah.com. February, 2009.

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• You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.

  Helen Fisher

  Thinking, Knowing, Fancy Cars

  "DNA Dating: Finding Your Genetic Match", abcnews.go.com. February 21, 2009.

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• If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

  Tucker Max

  Parent, Ignored, Trauma

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• Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

  Hanna Rosin

  Feminist, Fiery

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• Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

  "Edward Snowden is a hero" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2013.

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• We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Viruses, Nasty, Influenza

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• There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)

  D. J. MacHale

  Hate, Two, People

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• Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league.” “Then I wish for an infinite number of wishes!” Those people on fairy tales never thought of that. “People in fairy tales wish for that all the time,” the genie said. “They arent stupid. It just isnt in the records because I cant grant that type of wish.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sorry, Stupid, Numbers

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• The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Heart, Emotional, Humans

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• She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Wicked, Brunette, Darling

  Dashiell Hammett (1965). “Novels”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Believe, Ideas, Two

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• When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Spiritual, Lost

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.151, Macmillan

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• Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Stones, Influence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Mean, Law

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.

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• This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

  Winston Churchill

  Pedants, Prepositions, Pedantry

  Wall Street Journal, December 9, 1948.

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• We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Animal, Men, Broken

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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