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Quotes About Typical

Is it always like this? Tayla asked. My job? Yes This is my first week on the job, I said. So, so far? Yes. How do you feel about that? Like I wish I had decided to be the typical rich kid and been a sponge on my parents, I said. You don't really mean that, Tayla said. No, I said. But at the moment I really want to feel like I did.
~ John Scalzi
Poor old Nixon, even his own commissions beat on him. What the hell can he do? He can't go into every ghetto and fix the plumbing himself. He can't give every copped-out junkie a million dollars and a Ph.D. Nixon, who's Nixon? He's just a typical flatfooted Chamber of Commerce type who lucked his way into the hot seat and is so dumb he thinks it's good luck. Let the poor bastard alone, he's trying to bore us to death so we won't commit suicide.
~ John Updike
We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!
~ Paz Vega
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
8. FIRST REACTION: A quick withdrawal from anything new is typical of many spirited kids. Any unfamiliar idea, thing, place, or person may be met with a vehement "NO!" or a quick disappearance behind your leg or to another room. They need time to warm up before they're ready to participate.
~ Unknown
That even under the gospel of peace and reconciliation by Christ (of which the intercession of Moses was typical) the moral law should continue to bind believers.
~ Matthew Henry
Everett's quick conversion to the war cause after Sumter was just as typical of the North as had been his confusion during the secession winter.
~ Unknown
Whoever we are, we find ourselves, through self-observation, possessed of a certain small number of typical ways of reacting to the manifold impressions of incoming life. These mechanical reactions govern us.
~ Maurice Nicoll
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
The day was typical of early September, sunny and crisp in the morning, hot by afternoon.
~ Michael Punke
The contradiction is not between empire and nation; it is between empire and democracy. It is that contradiction that Asian American studies is especially poised to expose and explain, but the field must embrace empire as an analytic and overcome nationalist impulses to reproduce a typical "American" story.
~ Unknown
On my way to the parking lot, in quick succession, I saw students wearing t-shirts which read, "Save the whales. Collect the whole set," "Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now," and "Half the people you know are below average." Typical for the Eastern student body.
~ Unknown
She's just a typical bourgeois reactionary.' 'You mean, her prejudices are different from yours.
~ Olivia Manning
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
~ Oscar Wilde
In the middle of the song a group of men came into the bar looking for trouble. Trouble tried to sneak out the back, but was drunk and fell at our feet. Typical.
~ Unknown
Then, why so many suffered destruction by not having faith in this righteous ministry? The harlots and the tax collectors were the typical people who committed many sins.
~ Unknown