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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.

  Burton Malkiel

  Yield, Games, People

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• The typical response from people when I tell them Im diabetic is, Oh, Im sorry to hear that. You know, Im not. Im a better athlete because of diabetes rather than despite it. Im more aware of my training, my fitness and more aware of nutrition. Im more proactive about my health.

  Charlie Kimball

  Im Sorry, Athlete, People

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• Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Racism, Mastery

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

  Bill Vaughan

  Alarms, Transition, Bells

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• I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Trying, World, Century

  "Robert Anton Wilson on Wilhelm Reich". Interview, March 1995.

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• Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

  Charlie Munger

  Tragedy, Example, Investing

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• It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

  Margaret Mead

  Roots, America, United States

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

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• The typical fund company services 401k plan participants in the same way that Baby Face Nelson serviced banks.

  William J. Bernstein

  Baby, Way, Faces

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• There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Character, Thinking

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• By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.

  Louise Erdrich

  Government, Car, Promise

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• Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

  e. e. cummings

  Father, Mean, Eye

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• Im a typical Capricorn. Im hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I dont believe in astrology.

  Jonah Peretti

  Believe, Astrology, Capricorns

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• I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Children

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• Looking back at Batman from a distance - after all the hype has dried up and the franchise has at least temporarily been abandoned - it's easy to see the movie for what it is: a moderately diverting motion picture that should have been shorter and better paced. There are a lot of things wrong with Batman, but it still makes for decent entertainment in the fine tradition of the typical low-intelligence summer movie. The best thing that can be said about Batman is that it led to Batman Returns, which was a far superior effort.

  James Berardinelli

  Summer, Distance, Should Have

  "Batman (United States, 1989)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net.

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