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• Typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not back anything up.

  Sean Avery

  Running, League, Guy

  Sean Avery (2017). “Offside: My Life Crossing the Line”, p.158, Penguin

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• We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

  Paz Vega

  Dancer, Singers, Actresses

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• If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.

  Michael D. Barnes

  War, Home, Two

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• If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Average, Goal, Wages

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• Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Men, Politician, Unusual

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• Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

  Major Taylor

  Success, Champion, Modesty

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• The typical Walmart today offers you 100,000 products.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Motivation, Inspiration, Walmart

  "How to make choosing easier". TED conference, www.ted.com. November, 2011.

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• Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

  Edgar Degas

  Attitude, People, Portraits

  Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). “The shop-talk of Edgar Degas”

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• The typical American reports making about 70 [choices] in a typical day.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Choices, Reports

  "How to make choosing easier". TED conference, www.ted.com. November, 2011.

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• In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist thought always defended individual liberty and laissez-faire while attacking the systematic and coercive use of violence typical of government.

  Jesus Huerta de Soto

  Government, Views, Greek

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• Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.

  Norman Rockwell

  Thinking, America, Purpose

  "Fodor's New England". Book by Debbie Harmsen, p. 194, 2008.

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• The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Smart, Rocks

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• SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions.

  M. John Harrison

  Fun, Opportunity, Imagination

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• If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.

  Alcee Hastings

  War, Past, Years

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• The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Looks, Modern, Hunted

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.16, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

  Carl Lewis

  Believe, Media, Olympics

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• Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Mean, People

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• The terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever. This is what comes of a Protestant morality, that I, as a (thank God) typical Spaniard, found unnerving.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Running, Believe, Night

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• At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Confused, Mean, Men

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• It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.

  Francis Chan

  Song, Crazy, Sacrifice

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.2, David C Cook

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• [My grandmother] is a typical white person.

  Barack Obama

  Grandmother, White, Persons

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• A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clouds, Sky, People

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• The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Live Life, Profound, Feelings

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.284, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Faith, Believe, Knowing

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• If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

  Jimmy Rushing

  Rushing, Records, Jimmy

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