Typical Quotes - Page 9

• The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Dog, Stupid, American Voters

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• If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness And Success, Theme, Looking For Happiness

  Zig Ziglar (2002). “Zig: The Autiobiography of Zig Ziglar”, p.11, WaterBrook

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• I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. Somehow, the typical Porsche people-and I wish them no ill-are not, I feel, my kind of people. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one.

  Rowan Atkinson

  People, Car, Wish

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• I just saw dialogue, in the audition, and had no backstory. I was like, "I'm just going to be myself because I have no idea who this is or where he's coming from." The typical questions that actors have to ask themselves were very hard. I had to imagine, a little bit, and just made it work.

  Giles Matthey

  Ideas, Saws, Auditions

  Source: collider.com

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• It's definitely not the typical path. But at the same time, I've been working at this since I was young. I've been swimming and running my entire life, and I've been given so much support the last few years in cycling, that I've been able to improve. And I'm still improving and still absorbing that support to help me get to be the best that I can be.

  Gwen Jorgensen

  Running, Swimming, Cycling

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• Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for itself... Its power of exactly reproducing external reality, a power inherent in its technique, lends it a documentary character and makes it appear as the most faithful and impartial process for the reproduction of social life.

  Gisele Freund

  Photography, Character, Mean

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• I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.

  Willy Ronis

  Mirrors, People, Novelty

  Peter Hamilton, Willy Ronis, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England) (1995). “Willy Ronis: photographs, 1926-1995”

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• I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in the movie business. I went there like many writers - I had a screenplay deal and I would go to these meetings and it was the typical thing. And I hated it. I was not interested in writing screenplays, actually. But I kept feeling like that was what I was supposed to do. It was just this horrible cognitive dissonance.

  Meghan Daum

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.

  Fred Melamed

  Character, People, Way

  "Fred Melamed on Casual, the Coens, and making Larry David laugh". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 15, 2016.

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• There was a genocide unfolding against Bosnian Muslims and we, in the United Kingdom, were incredibly angered - a teenager at the time, 15 years old, so my young teenage mind processed that in a way typical to the very passionate and angry and black-and-white way that teenagers often can do.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Teenage, Black And White, Years

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The typical WW1 soldier was not an intellectual like Ernst Jünger or Wilfred Owen, but was a peasant draftee from Galicia or Bavaria or Sicily, with all the traditional religious ideas. The hothouse atmosphere of war brought everyone into a supernatural-oriented universe of ghosts and apparitions.

  Philip Jenkins

  Religious, War, Ideas

  Interview with Scott McKnight, www.patheos.com. January 23, 2016.

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• There's no typical person [addicted to heroin]. It just has permeated every segment of society in Ohio.

  Mike DeWine

  Ohio, Heroin, Persons

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• A lot of things sound neutral, but they're not. A typical example would involve police violence. It's usually forbidden to call police "murderers," even if they're convicted of murder. People will say that it sounds hysterical and unobjective.

  Molly Crabapple

  Police Violence, People, Sound

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what a fun-loving guy Dad was, and how brooding and unhappy Mom was. The children sort of blame it all on the mother. Well, this is kind of standard and typical, and aggrieved Eleanor Roosevelt that she was not a happier mother. She wanted to be a happier mother. And I must say, she was a happier grandmother.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Thinking, Careers, President

  "War Crime Investigations Among France's Release Of Vichy Documents". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• I'm a really big homebody. If I had my way, a typical Saturday night would be staying home, ordering in, watching a movie or catching up on some shows.

  Christine Taylor

  Home, Night, Way

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• My wildest tipping point moment came when I was introduced to Clint Eastwood. He was sitting there, typical Clint Eastwood, wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, holding a Budweiser. He looks at me and says, "I watch your show from time to time." I just stopped. I was like, "I can't even think about that. I'm not even sure if I'm happy about that."

  Chris Harrison

  Thinking, White, Jeans

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I just see me, an ordinary girl. I know my life is not typical, but I have tried to stay really grounded and true to myself. My family really helps me with that.

  Zendaya

  Girl, Ordinary, Helping

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• In some ways, there's no typical day with all the shoots and travel and projects, but I do try and stop by my studio every day.

  Garance Dore

  Trying, Way, Projects

  "BYT Interviews: Garance Dore". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 19, 2016.

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• I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

  Billy Collins

  Moving, Simple, Progress

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical, one word is Russian, and one word is Yiddish. This kind of connection between very high language and very low language is very natural, people use it all the time.

  Etgar Keret

  Biblical, People, Connections

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• [The media's] fantasy of an America bristling with racists allows them to portray any criticism of our massively incompetent and dangerous president as just another sad episode of oh-so-typical white racism.

  Ann Coulter

  Media, White, America

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• It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.

  Bran Ferren

  Country, School, Technology

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• I was not ambitious as a child. My father encouraged me to enter competitions and contests, which became very much part of my life. I was not the typical teenager. I was very closed, shy and didn't hangout with my friends at disco's. My parents wanted me at home. Singing became my life, I traveled a lot on the job, and my job became my dream.

  Laura Pausini

  Dream, Jobs, Children

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• I am a typical teen who likes to shop, sing karaoke, spend time with family and friends, answer my www.myspace.com e-mails

  Paula DeAnda

  Family And Friends, Answers, Karaoke

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