Typical Quotes

• A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Patriotic, Issues

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• New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

  Djuna Barnes

  New York, Cities, Meetings

  1916 'Greenwich Village As It Is', in Pearson's Magazine, Oct.

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• I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

  Joyce Giraud

  Girl, Queens, Ambition

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• The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

  C. S. Lewis

  Expression, Would Be, Opening

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, Midwesterners, Conditions

  "Stage acting? It's just too hard" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2005.

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• The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.

  Barack Obama

  Grandmother, White, Racism

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• If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the Beverly Hillbillies.

  Dave Barry

  Music, Song, Two

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

  Lady Gaga

  Musician, Mediocrity, Actresses

  Song: The Fame Monster, Album: The Fame, 2008

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• The impositions that this government is trying to put on now, it's the typical death by 1,000 cuts. We'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here. And it doesn't end the conversations for 25, 50 years. It starts the conversation again the next day what they're looking to take back.And really it's about freedoms.

  Sean Hannity

  Cutting, Government, Years

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it forever and enjoys the returns that U.S. businesses, and to some extent global businesses, have earned since the beginning of time. Speculation is betting on price. Speculation has no place in the portfolio or the kit of the typical investor.

  John C. Bogle

  Forever, Return, Portfolios

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• In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins.

  Richard Matheson

  Heart, People, Veins

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and then everyone working longer hours and using their homes for raising equity and generating more money through debt. The typical household basically staved off the day of reckoning.

  Robert Reich

  Home, Coping Mechanisms, Entering

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I like stylish men although I'm someone who sees a man who's not dressed right and think what I could do with him to make him cute. I'm a typical Jewish woman like that.

  Amy Winehouse

  Cute, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff.

  Matt Smith

  Christian, Song, Struggle

  Source: www.angelicwarlord.com

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• Fashion for me is another way I get to express myself creatively. It is one of the fun things I get to do: to play dress-up, and create outfits and looks that aren't typical. I am an artist, so I like creating things. Shoes are my favorite thing.

  Rihanna

  Fashion, Fun, Artist

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm just really excited to promote the movie [I know The Chair ] and the show in a different way, and not just the typical Hollywood way, which I don't think I'll ever fit into.

  Shane Dawson

  Thinking, Hollywood, Different

  Source: cultural-learnings.com

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• We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.

  Richard Branson

  Team, Responsibility, Government

  "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• It's nice to represent a woman who can be bigger than what you see as a typical skinny actress - being funny and desirable at the same time.

  Kether Donohue

  Nice, Actresses, Skinny

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.

  Anthony Daniels

  Children, School, Adults

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• To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical. "To illustrate a principle ," says Bagehot , "you must exaggerate much and you must omit much." As to the quantity of absolute truth in a thought : it seems to me the more comprehensive and unobjectionable a thought becomes, the more clumsy and unexciting it gets. I like half-truths of a certain kind they are interesting and they stimulate.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Drawing, Interesting

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the "world and woman," i.e., the anima projected on to the world.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Men, World

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.317, Princeton University Press

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• I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Growing Up, Character, Thinking

  "From 'Pale Force' to 'My Boys' Region native Jim Gaffigan keeps comedy career chuggin' with new sitcom". "Post-Tribune" Newspaper, December 15, 2006.

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• The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wish, Causes, Environment

  Bertrand Russell (1922). “The problem of China”

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• The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass of inert shareholders, indistinguishable from rentiers, who employ salaried managers to run their concerns.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Running, Men, Entrepreneur

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• Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.

  Martin Filler

  Practice, Design Process, Office

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