Typical Quotes - Page 3

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

  Herbie Hancock

  Unique, Miles, Session

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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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• 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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• 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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• The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, President, Watches

  "Marco Rubio makes the case for Mitt Romney, steers clear of vice presidential talk". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2012.

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• When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

  Jenni Rivera

  Mother, Artist, Doors

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• Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.

  Henry Paulson

  Important, Settling, Payment

  Speech on the "Blueprint for Regulatory Reform", www.cnbc.com. March 31, 2008.

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• In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

  Brad Paisley

  Past, Guitar, Impress

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.

  Denise Van Outen

  Two, People, Different

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• In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

  John Forbes Nash

  Dream, Rational

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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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• 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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