"We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!"
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"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."
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"History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system."
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"It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation."
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"If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs."
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"[My grandmother] is a typical white person."
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"The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to be the ones that are typical of beginners. The expert is someone who sees beyond those typical responses and has an understanding of the deeper workings of the market."
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"When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling."
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"I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty."
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"My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture."
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"I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are so typical for living organisms as, for instance, those appearing in the biological evolution."
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"When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement."
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"This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had."
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"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."
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"I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important about America, about our culture, and about bringing a story to a new generation that perhaps didn't know the details of it, (and) hadn't had the visceral experience that this film is [42]."
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"It was the typical paranoid experience [to hide coke]. As soon as I knew my hiding place, I thought the whole world knew it. I'd write clues to my hiding places in code, then forget the code and spend the rest of the day looking for my coke."
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"This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'."
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"You'd think all of these "atypical" somethings would add up to a typical something"
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"A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'"
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"In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history."
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