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Quotes About Generic

To speak of sports as a generic activity makes it impossible to discuss what athletes actually do or the physical attributes required to do it. What do all sports have in common apart from breathing? Not much. The term religion is hardly more useful.
~ Sam Harris
A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.
~ Ving Rhames
I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.
~ J. K. Simmons
EpiPen is not unique. It falls into a category of old drugs, many of which should have long been subject to generic competition.
~ Scott Gottlieb
Rock shrimp is so generic.
~ Jonathan Cheban
T.J.'s not a good person. He's not a good person. He's kind of a generic version of Dominick Cruz.
~ Cody Garbrandt
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.
~ Edmund White
My father was a corporate lawyer. He went to work in a suit and tie. He had a secretary. He left the house before seven A.M. His professional life felt generic, like a backdrop, a signifier more than a life: office job.
~ Carrie Brownstein
When you speak the language of creativity, you can transform a dull commodity into something magical. Rather than charging just for the generic value of the product, you can charge for the experience.
~ Sally Hogshead
The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. They announced today that they have settled on Mycoxafloppin.
~ Barry Dougherty
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
~ Rick Moranis
Questions are like gifts - it's the thought behind them that the receiver really feels. We have to know the receiver to give the right gift and to ask the right question. Generic gifts and questions are all right, but personal gifts and questions feel better.
~ Glennon Doyle Melton
The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Angie's house looked like a child's drawing of a mansion: It was so generic it was barely three-dimensional.
~ Gillian Flynn
The explicit ones Rachel sent to the usual security people, while Catkejen watched with aghast fascination. Rachel shrugged them off. Years before, she had developed the art of tossing these on sight, forgetting them, not letting them gimp her game. Others were plainly generic: bellowed from pulpits, mosques, temples, and churches.
~ Gregory Benford
Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths, generic common denominators. They are tightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty, and strength through the fabric of life.
~ Stephen R. Covey
A soberania do indivíduo não qualificado, do indivíduo humano genérico e enquanto tal, passou de idéia ou ideal jurídico que era, a ser um estado psicológico constitutivo do homem médio.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Biologics must be grown in living systems - fermented, for example, in large vats of bacteria cells. This makes them hard to replicate. For decades, biologics weren't subject to competition from copycat generic medicines, even once patents and exclusivities had lapsed on originals.
~ Scott Gottlieb
The mayor spread his arms. "What do you think of the place? Beautiful, am I right?" It looked to Adam like a conference room at a Courtyard Marriott, which was to say neat, generic, and impersonal. Adam gave a noncommittal head nod. "Walk
~ Harlan Coben
The regulatory approach of the Food and Drug Administration and the Patent and Trademark Office has driven up the costs of generic drugs.
~ J. D. Vance
With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience.
~ Kara Swisher
It is easy to follow a generic God because you can fill the term God with any presupposition you please; it is difficult to follow Jesus, because then you have to take seriously his teachings on discipleship, on what exactly following him entails.
~ Michael Hardin
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
~ Lee Child
Her words were generically profound, like a Hallmark card I'd skim over to get to the check.
~ Julie Halpern