Typical Quotes

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A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and… — Timothy Gowers
You'd think all of these "atypical" somethings would add up to a typical something — Robin Williams
But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with… — Dennis Muren
A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual… — Amy Goodman
Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. â€¦ Even when companies create seemingly significant pay differentiation… — Jeffrey Pfeffer
Increasingly independent black economic, cultural and political power gave Blacks more freedom to do what came natural to them. Divorced from White influence and culture,… — David Duke
I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during… — Bill Maher
Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance. — David Burge
I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go. — Chris Isaak
The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of… — H. L. Mencken
Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first. — James A. Baldwin
The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work… — Patricia Briggs
You can tell a lot about someone's personality if you know his star sign -Jesus, born on 25 December, fed the five thousand, walked on… — Harry Hill
I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don't come around very often, so I have… — Rose McGowan
Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the… — Randy Neugebauer
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality. — Peter R. Orszag
Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes… — Wilhelm Ostwald
I'm a typical California boy. — Gary Lockwood
Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my… — Aaron Paul

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