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• I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

  Adam Sandler

  Comedy, Adam

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• The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Ideas, Form, Process

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• When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.

  Mandy Moore

  Beautiful, Thinking, Years

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• My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Patterns

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• It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Kids, Vacation

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• The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

  John Ralston Saul

  Real, Rejection, Bitterness

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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've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

  Evan Davis

  Party, Glasses, Office

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• If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.

  Mitch Daniels

  Believe, People, Corners

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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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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• Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

  Bill Bryson

  Cities, Circles, Malls

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• I didn't want to do something typical.

  Beck

  Want

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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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• 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 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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• Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, Class, Evil

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.51, Wildside Press LLC

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.

  Herbie Hancock

  Unique, Miles, Session

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• I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

  Ryan Gosling

  Thinking, Men, Hollywood

  ""If women love me it’s because I listen …not for my abs" by Amy Jones". www.thesun.co.uk. August 25, 2012.

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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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