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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• People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

  Keith Henson

  Children, People, Drug

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• I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.

  Hugh Hefner

  Heart, Kids, Methodists

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• I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Change, Children, Years

  "What you see and what you get". Interview with Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2005.

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• I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Thinking, People, Tea

  "Katherine Jenkins: this much I know". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

  K. D. Lang

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

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• I don't like to look typical.

  Adam Lambert

  Looks

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• Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Might, Pisces

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, High Heels, Achilles

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

  Roger Ebert

  Heart, People, Life Experience

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• The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

  Stockwell Day

  Trying, Stories, Lines

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• I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility, living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small and increasingly mongrel. I am a multinational soul on a multinational globe on which more and more countries are as polyglot and restless as airports. Taking planes seems as natural to me as picking up the phone or going to school. I fold up my self and carry it around as if it were an overnight bag.

  Pico Iyer

  Country, School, Airports

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• My life is anything but typical.

  Margaret Cho

  Life Is

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• My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, Military, War

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.

  Christian Bale

  Needs, Comedy, Never Say Never

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