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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The bad guys are not typical, they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

  Jan de Bont

  Interesting, Guy, Might

  "Jan De Bont Discusses Tomb Raider 2". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 12, 2003.

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• The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Land, Energy, United States

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• The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.

  Hillary Clinton

  Favors, Ceo, Workers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

  Edgar Degas

  Expression, People, Giving

  Edgar Degas, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Degas by Degas”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Feelings, Ordinary

  Vincent van Gogh, Anthon Gerhard Alexander Rappard (ridder van), Anthon van Rappard (1936). “Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885”

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• The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.

  Warren Buffett

  Looks, Dobermans, Chihuahua

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• A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Boredom, Anxiety, Dull

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• The next day, we shot 'I Want You Back,' and that was a 14-hour day. That's typical. By the end of the day, my knees and ankles are killing me.

  Grant Gustin

  Want You Back, Next Day, The End Of The Day

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• 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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• There is no such thing as a typical season, not for the Cardinals, not for San Diego, not for Minnesota.

  Dennis Green

  San Diego, Minnesota, Cardinals

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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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