Typical Quotes - Page 5

• This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.

  Steve Jobs

  Light, Tea, Cups

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• People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.

  Gagan Narang

  Sports, Jobs, Eggs

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• I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the “typical liberal” — as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Self, Class, Two

  "Spock Mugged" by Wilfrid Sheed, www.nytimes.com. January 7, 1973.

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• I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who's not very good looking and doesn't have much attention to style.

  Guy Ritchie

  Men, Ideas, Style

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Girl, Running, Stars

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

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• We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.

  Jeff Olson

  Significant Change, Two, Needs

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• I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.

  Kurt Cobain

  Mother, Father, School

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• Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Travel, Nuisance, Firsts

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.202, New Directions Publishing

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• It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

  James A. Baldwin

  America, Generations, Firsts

  1955 Notes of a Native Son,'Notes of a Native Son'.

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• The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

  Patricia Briggs

  Morning, Home, Writing

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• I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Blue, Actors, Crew

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

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• I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.

  Dan Auerbach

  Love Is, Men, Talking

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.

  Dianna Agron

  Teaching, School, College

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• My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Mother, Father, Past

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• I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.

  Katherine Moennig

  Girl, Zero, School

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• I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don't come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I'm not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.

  Rose McGowan

  Strong Women, Fun, Fighting

  "Rose McGowan and Christie Brinkley sound off on heartbreak at red dress" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 9, 2012.

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• The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

  Audra McDonald

  Southern, Sound, Dialect

  "Audra McDonald: Shaping 'Bess' On Broadway". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 15, 2012.

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• I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Screwed Up

  "The Legend Of Bob Metcalfe" by Scott Kirsner, www.wired.com. November 01, 1998.

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• Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

  Hayley Mills

  Character, Safety, Shy

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• Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

  Sergey Brin

  Country, Book, Choices

  "A Library to Last Forever". www.nytimes.com. October 08, 2009.

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• Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that they have a name for the true beliefs which are the typical product of these reliable capacities. They call them items of knowledge. So I argue that talk of knowledge may thereby be seen to be embedded within a successful empirical theory.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Successful, Names, Acquisition

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• And guys will say looks matter, but they'll also say things like "Well, she should be smart and kind." And you know those are... so the typical responses and if you give them just a few options, like five or six, then they will rate them on the very characteristics that they said were really important to them.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Smart, Giving, Guy

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Beauty is a complex theme, for sure. We all have a different concept and opinion regarding it, but we all like to look at things that are aesthetically pleasing. I had the typical high school experience, where you question what is beauty, and you're comparing yourself to others, it was just part of growing up.

  Elle Fanning

  Growing Up, School, Different

  "Interview: Elle Fanning, Nicolas Winding Refn on 'The Neon Demon'". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. June 22, 2016.

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• I got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical, sad history of relatively promiscuous sexual encounters with men I didn't know, because I felt that if I were involved with people I did know, other people would know that I was gay, and it was something that I needed to keep so secret.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, Men, People

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

  David Rolf

  War, Today, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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