"When I was young, boys didn't type."
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"A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart."
"I have a whole different type of lifestyle."
"I'm not the type of person who enjoys the limelight."
"Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing."
"I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source."
"[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions."
"I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it."
"The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me."
"The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type."
"She's not your type. Since when do I have a type?"
"I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages."
"I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make."
"What can I say? I’m a sucker for the shy, quiet types."
"When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic: he liked Katherines. And not Katies or Kats or Kitties or Cathys or Rynns or Trinas or Kays or Kates or, god forbid, Catherines. K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He had dated 19 girls. All of them had been named Katherine. And all of them- every single solitary one- had dumped him."
"You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases."
"The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves."
"I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here."
"I don't really have a type of woman."