Typical Quotes
423 quotes by 390 authors
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(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking about the typical…
— Thomas Cahill
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The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.
— Dick Morris
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The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.
— George Orwell
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A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier…
— Uwe Boll
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In at least one way we are atypical bloggers. That’s because we just keep on posting. The typical blogger, like most people who go on…
— Stephen J. Dubner
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You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration.…
— Anastacia
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The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
— Richard M. Weaver
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Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavorable evidence.…
— Karl Popper
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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…
— Carl Lewis
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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…
— Jean Piaget
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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…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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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…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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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…
— Francis Chan
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[My grandmother] is a typical white person.
— Barack Obama
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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
— Edgar Degas
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Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of…
— Andrew Solomon
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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…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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…
— Edgar Mitchell
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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
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