“I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.” FirstsHeartLeftBehindsBoysBrokenNervousStringsTypicalFirst LoveBreakdownCharismaticBad BoyNervous Breakdown Author:Caroline Leavitt
“I think young people ought to seek that differential experience that is going to knock them off dead center. I was a typical American school boy. I happened to get straight A's and be pretty good in sports. But I had no great vision of what I could be. And I never had any yearning.” PeopleThinkingSchoolYoungSportsVisionBoysHappenedOughtYearningTypicalGreat Vision Author:James A. Michener
“My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.” LittlesI CanWantedUsedRoomsBoysBaseballTragedyShoesComplainingComedianLeagueGrandmotherTypicalBentMy GrandmotherNeuroticUps & DownsSuburbsLittle LeagueGreat TragedyLittle League Baseball Author:Jon Stewart
“I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a teenager I also thought about the more typical philosophical problems teenagers think about: the existence of god, the objectivity of morality, whether one can know that the external world exists.” ThinkingKnowsWorldProblemRememberExistenceBoysMoralityStonesPhilosophicalTeenagerTypicalIdenticalObjectivityExistence Of God Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra