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• If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichés of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

  Miuccia Prada

  Beautiful, Fashion, Ideas

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• In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.

  Manohla Dargis

  Baby, Loneliness, Sadness

  "A Youngster With a Key, a Word and a Quest" by Manohla Dargis, www.nytimes.com. December 22, 2011.

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• Does it really matter if I choose the bus over a BMW, and generic over Gucci? Because the car, the wardrobe, the zip code-those are just nouns, things that are fun to have around, sure, but in the end, they have nothing to do with the real me. Nothing to do with who I really am.

  Alyson Noel

  Fun, Real, Bmw

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.447, Pan Macmillan

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• There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

  Aristotle

  Names, Two, Generic Name

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Being Yourself, Jobs, School

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1755, Random House

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• I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me.

  Guy Picciotto

  Emo, Hate, Stupid

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• conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.

  Casey Miller

  Children, Teaching, Use

  Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.8, iUniverse

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• You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.

  Randeep Hooda

  Character, Giving, Risk

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• When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

  Aristotle

  Government, Names, Generic Name

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinners; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.

  Mary B. Harris

  Opportunity, Views, Grace

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• I'm convinced people are bored of generic travel

  Matt Prior

  People, Bored, Convinced

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• I had a really generic upbringing, I think, when it comes to viewing movies as a kid. I didn't really know what was out there or what was being tried. I was, like, 'E.T.' and 'Indiana Jones.' Those were the only things I knew existed.

  Shane Carruth

  Kids, Thinking, Indiana

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• If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as quaint to us as a bottle of sarsaparilla tonic. Instead, we'll take our genotype ID bracely to the local genopharmacologist to order some bespoke pharmaceuticals. Or we may rise at four A.M. to meditate on the part of our nature that is painful and feel better for it. Along with social insurance, we'll carry geno-cards that list our predispositions: photosensitivity, osteoporosis, and poor response to codeine.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Feel Better, Order

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• Nowadays there are so many stars on television.There are all these generic stars now.There's Dave Caruso...Dave Caruso's kind of fun: "I know he killed your family...but he won't do it again." He says the stupidest sh*t. "I know he shot your children, but he won't do it any more." There isn't really a recognisable personality out there.

  Pablo Francisco

  Stars, Children, Fun

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• I think squats is a generic thing - you can do squats with anything. That's the great thing about it. As long as you get in a safe position to do it.

  Greg Rutherford

  Thinking, Long, Safe

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• Comedy is a funny thing, and it's really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title. You would never go to a club just to see "Live music," you would go to a jazz club to see jazz, a blues club to see blues, etc. But when you go to see "standup comedy," if you don't know the performers material, you really don't have any idea what you're gonna get.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Funny Things, Ideas

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• Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

  Rob Zombie

  Movies In General, Hollywood, Ifs

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 1, 2014.

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• Unfortunately our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very-very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Strong, Balance, Needs

  "Market needs to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw". ET Now Interview, economictimes.indiatimes.com. April 26, 2013.

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• Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no longer an attraction. So, I think that the dropping of the denominational label is to become more generic, less of a threat, less of a reminder of negative stereotypes if you've walked away from church.

  Eddie Gibbs

  Jesus, Thinking, Church

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• I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

  Lee Child

  Italian, Term, Sicilian

  "Lee Child's Los Angeles". Interview with York Membery, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 1, 2010.

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• Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in accord with natural order, the union of the sexes among animals is ordered towards conception. From this it follows that every sexual intercourse that cannot lead to conception is opposed to man's animal nature.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Sex, Men

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• I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to Hell.

  Sarah Vowell

  Stupid, Catholic, Brilliant

  Sarah Vowell (2008). “The Wordy Shipmates”, p.22, Penguin

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• People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people

  Colin Powell

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Tin, Lines

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• I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Character, Men, World

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