#typical

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#black americans #book #civil #civil rights #context

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#attitudes #call #came #coming #could

Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#clearly #consumers #enormous #freeing #going

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting. ↗

— Christian Bale

#desperately #doing #dough #getting #i

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#city #find #hardly #meeting #new

If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#citizens #day #die #died #entire

The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#bills #buy #buying #easing #example

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo. ↗

— Artur Davis

#begin #blinded #columns #denver #end

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box. ↗

— Evan Davis

#always #bbc #been #box #caravan

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#canadian #canadians #change #gain #hard