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  • At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back? -- Jonathan Raban
  • I'm obsessively opposed to the typical. -- Lady Gaga
  • If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable. -- John Malkovich
  • A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy. -- Carl Sagan
  • As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place. -- Mark Galli
  • I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago. -- Maurice Sendak
  • New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. -- Djuna Barnes
  • The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person... -- Barack Obama
  • Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories. -- Alan Kay
  • I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me. -- Michelle Williams
  • I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas. -- Anna Deavere Smith
  • Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap -- Morton Feldman
  • If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the Beverly Hillbillies. -- Dave Barry
  • The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism. -- H. L. Mencken
  • 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 a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his real interests. He becomes primitive again. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
  • Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way. -- Margaret Bourke-White
  • I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. 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
  • Typical me--hurricane that leaves nothing but destruction. -- Katie McGarry
  • Ok! So that's the spice. Typical gossips for or against a qualified newcomer! -- Koral Dasgupta
  • Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead. -- Tony Fadell
  • Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender. -- Jackson Katz
  • Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up! -- Diana Wynne Jones
  • Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down. -- Anat R. Admati
  • Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates. -- Eric Idle
  • Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an 'excuse me'. Typical. -- William E. Geist
  • Typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not back anything up. -- Sean Avery
  • Typical" Kisten said, his eyes dramatically sad. "Try to do something nice for a person, cheer her up, and what do I get? Abused and robbed. -- Kim Harrison
  • I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition. -- Penelope Keith
  • Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical. -- Cathy Cassidy
  • The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth. -- Edgar Lee Masters
  • Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?"I said nothing."What colour's a blackbird?" she said."Black""Typical! -- David Almond
  • 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
  • I don't like to look typical. -- Adam Lambert
  • In a dream it's typical not to be rational. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • I'm a typical Capricorn. I'm hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don't believe in astrology. -- Jonah Peretti
  • My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture. -- Natalie Cole
  • 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
  • My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul. -- Paulo Coelho
  • I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life. -- Tina Yothers
  • I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him. -- Caroline Leavitt
  • My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. -- Frederick Reines
  • 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
  • I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
  • I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city. -- Felicia Day
  • A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. -- David Eagleman
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition. -- Joyce Giraud
  • The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. -- Buchi Emecheta
  • My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it. -- Kid Cudi
  • I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the hours. -- Amy Chua
  • I do what I love, thank God. I get to make music and get inspiration through Judaism. I can see why people might be surprised, because it's not been done before. It's certainly not typical. People are always trying to wrap head their around it. But it's probably simpler than everyone thinks. -- Matisyahu
  • Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing in on each writers voice and setting. When I felt like I was obligated to write a story that was more typical, no one really liked it. -- Aimee Bender
  • When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose. -- Marina Abramovic
  • Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar. -- Maurice Sendak
  • A typical Seville shop reaches far along the street front, with many open doors, and a counter running the full length. Here ladies sit in pairs and groups, never singly, to cheapen fans and mantillas, while the smiling salesmen, cigarette in hand, shrug and gesticulate and give back banter for banter as gayly as if it were all a holiday frolic. -- Katharine Lee Bates
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  • I'm a typical California boy. -- Gary Lockwood
  • Golf is typical capitalist luncay. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • My life is anything but typical. -- Margaret Cho
  • A typical rapist is a recidivist. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
  • I'm not a typical public school boy. -- Josh Bowman
  • I didn't want to do something typical. -- Beck
  • A [typical] worker is a part-time slave. -- Bob Black
  • The typical Walmart today offers you 100,000 products. -- Sheena Iyengar
  • [My grandmother] is a typical white person. -- Barack Obama
  • The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary. -- James Alan Fox
  • Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes. -- Edgar Degas
  • Rich colors are typical of a rich nature. -- Van Day Truex
  • I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies. -- Adam Sandler
  • The typical modern has the look of the hunted. -- Richard M. Weaver
  • In a dream it's typical not to be rational. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • [Hillary Clinton] is typical politician. All talk, no action. -- Donald Trump
  • How typical of a machine to think it knows better. -- Vasileios Kalampakas
  • I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them. -- Nicola Formichetti
  • I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. -- Maurice Sendak
  • What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind. -- Bob Goff
  • I didn't do the typical things that young kids do. -- Balthazar Getty
  • A typical day for me involves a lot of meetings. -- Sophia Amoruso
  • Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion. -- Major Taylor
  • We've never been your typical family. We've moved a lot. -- Stacie Orrico
  • The typical American reports making about 70 [choices] in a typical day. -- Sheena Iyengar
  • A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade. -- Thorstein Veblen
  • I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me. -- Robert Metcalfe
  • I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason. -- Kenan Thompson
  • I'm a typical guy. Driving cars and speed are really fun. -- Luke Mably
  • It was a typical day of suckage and blowage.' (Chris) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more. -- Nora Roberts
  • In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens. -- Ronald Kessler
  • A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing. -- Adam Rapp
  • The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks. -- Jonathan Gruber
  • John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish -- Gareth Barry
  • I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart. -- Hugh Hefner
  • The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else. -- Steven Pinker
  • I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything. -- Ben Whishaw
  • It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move. -- Al Jardine
  • You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society. -- Rem Koolhaas
  • It's typical of Mormon people to love all people, but especially Jewish people. -- Orrin Hatch
  • ...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series. -- Lee Wulff
  • My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
  • Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique. -- Herbie Hancock
  • The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression. -- Vladimir Sorokin
  • Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical. -- Barbara Mertz
  • You'd think all of these "atypical" somethings would add up to a typical something -- Robin Williams
  • That's so typical. You won't steal a baby, but you're too lazy to conjugate. -- Jim Butcher
  • You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look. -- Action Bronson
  • It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn. -- Evelyn Waugh
  • I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh. -- Jim Butcher
  • The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady. -- Dick Morris
  • My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up. -- Ai Weiwei
  • If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record. -- Jimmy Rushing
  • I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing. -- Jens Lekman
  • It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc. -- Laura Schlessinger
  • Im a typical Capricorn. Im hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I dont believe in astrology. -- Jonah Peretti
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