Quotes with typical

  • 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.
  • The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.

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  • Karl Albrecht The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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  • Billy Joel A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Brad Feld A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bruce Henderson Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 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 Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Bill Dedman Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the spiritual sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the world and woman, i.e., the anima projected on to the world.
    A Study in the Process of Individuation (1934)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bernie Leadon I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.
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  • Alcee Hastings If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Bill Ackman If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Alberto Tomba It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever.
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  • Al Jourgensen It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.
    Al Jourgensen
    Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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  • Betty Parsons My husband wanted me to be a typical socialite. We never agreed on anything, so finally we decided it wasn't going to work.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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  • Bill Williams One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.
    Bill Williams
    American actor
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  • Arthur Erickson The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Buchi Emecheta 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
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Bob Barr The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Bill Condon We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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