Top 88 Generic Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Generic Quotes from famous people such as Scott Gottlieb, Kurt Busiek, Amanda Crew, Pamela Druckerman, Jonathan Cheban, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The higher cost of getting a generic drug approved by r

The higher cost of getting a generic drug approved by regulators means that many old medicines don’t face competitors. It’s only after substantial price hikes that these drugs offer enough revenue to offset the rising generic entry costs, and start to entice competition.
Scott Gottlieb
The most fascinating powers don’t mean a thing if the guy’s poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won’t hurt a well-motivated character. Personality and motivation are what make Magneto, Magneto and not Cosmic Boy. The powers work for him, but it’s his motivation that makes him the character he is.
Kurt Busiek
Television has changed. There’s obviously the generic shows, but on HBO and AMC, there are some really great series, so I’m not closed off to television. If there’s an amazing role with amazing people and a great story, I’d definitely be open to it.
Amanda Crew
Just as dressing well in your forties entails making choices that reflect who you are and not just wearing generic basics, looking good as you get older requires accentuating and enjoying what’s specific to you rather than striving for cookie-cutter perfection.
Pamela Druckerman
Rock shrimp is so generic.
Jonathan Cheban
I know, it sounds generic and is a cliche, but coming from a middle class family in Kanpur, it was always the neighbourhood opinions which mattered.
Naveen Tewari
I think that there’s a real appetite for opinion-driven satire, not just generic making jokes about what’s in the news but actually point-of-view-driven stuff.
Nish Kumar
Vivian Abenshushan and Veronica Gerber write brilliant books that defy generic conventions.
Alvaro Enrigue
There’s nothing worse for a mentor than being asked generic questions that anyone could answer. They want to ensure that their time is having an impact on you.
Caroline Ghosn
We should look for ways to expedite generic drug approvals, particularly for products that have a long history of being safe and effective.
Amy Klobuchar
People are starting to understand: all generic companies aren’t created equally.
Heather Bresch
I don’t think the philosophy really changes between men and women. I think golf courses need to become more distance-friendly overall. I think golf courses almost need to develop a more generic set of tees instead of calling them black, blue, red or whatever.
Amy Alcott
I’m just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music – I don’t want to do generic jazz or fusion.
Andy Summers
I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.
Steven Wilson
Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and ‘Continue’ buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it’s practically a generic.
Lynda Resnick
Most of the bad taste I’ve been accused of has been generic bad taste; it’s been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.
John Cleese
I am deeply troubled by Mylan’s misclassification of the EpiPen as a generic drug.
Amy Klobuchar
My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than a generic interest in biology.
Hope Jahren
From the outside, Rick Rubin’s house above Zuma Beach is a generic millionaire beach home. There’s a rarely used tennis court and a circular drive.
Stephen Rodrick
We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe.
Phil Lord
I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too ‘done’ and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.
Emma Watson
I don’t care that people thought I was one way for my whole career because now that I am not attached to a team, I can have my own opinion, I can have my own voice. I can link myself to my own thought process rather than a generic message most teams try to get across.
Brian O’Driscoll
It’s difficult to build services that are supposed to scale to, you know, 30, 50, 100 million users right off the bat because they got to be kind of tailored down; by definition, they have to be a little bit generic to speak to that large of an audience.
Dennis Crowley
I think everything’s experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It’s no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music – until you say, ‘This is my song, or this is my composition’ – it’s all experimental, whether you like it or not.
Bill Laswell
Traditionally, there’s been a desire to make shows relatable so the maximum number of people would think of those characters as being recognizably like them. The risk there is you can push everything in a somewhat generic direction.
Roy Price
Unfortunately, our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very, very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that’s generic – an Indian accent and that’s how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.
Adhir Kalyan
EpiPen is not unique. It falls into a category of old drugs, many of which should have long been subject to generic competition.
Scott Gottlieb
The two real leads in ‘Children of Men’ are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.
Alfonso Cuaron
T.J.’s not a good person. He’s not a good person. He’s kind of a generic version of Dominick Cruz.
Cody Garbrandt
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth – well, it’s like brown – it’s not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Iris Murdoch
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‘The Count’ wasn’t a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on purpose. It was supposed to be lame. I didn’t put fangs on; it was a guy who was just going through the motions. I drew on the widow’s peak with eyebrow pencil and wore a turtleneck, not a tux.
Joe Flaherty
I never looked up what a Midwestern accent was; I just did a very generic one.
Emma Corrin
I want to avoid becoming too styled, too ‘done’ and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost.
Emma Watson
Standup is full of young white guys with generic life experiences.
Ivo Graham
If you look at pop stars through the ages, we’ve had camp, glam popstars from the 80s – your George Michaels and what have you – but then people went back to the closet a bit, and became more homogenised and generic.
Olly Alexander
I had a really generic upbringing, I think, when it comes to viewing movies as a kid. I didn’t really know what was out there or what was being tried. I was, like, ‘E.T.’ and ‘Indiana Jones.’ Those were the only things I knew existed.
Shane Carruth
Other female rappers are overly sexual, have no wit, and their lyrics are so generic. I want to change the game to make rap that shows I’m not a normal female rapper – it’s not about how rich I am, how much sex I have, or how many boyfriends I have. That’s just not me.
Awkwafina
My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a – put into a predictive framework. That’s the quest.
Geoffrey West
Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.
Matthew Simpson
Many companies claim they have core values, but typically what they’re referring to are generic beliefs: having integrity, making a profit, responding to customers and so on. These values only have meaning when they’re defined in terms of how people behave and are ranked to set priorities.
Ken Blanchard
My books are not generic. You know when you’re reading a Joy Fielding book.
Joy Fielding
The regulatory approach of the Food and Drug Administration and the Patent and Trademark Office has driven up the costs of generic drugs.
J. D. Vance
There is no ‘generic’ Latina.
Tanya Saracho
If you do generic things, you know, after a while, brands or designers become stagnated.
Jonathan Anderson
If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there’s no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it’s better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic.
Roger Deakins
As a child, I was always playing some generic child.
Susan Olsen
In today’s world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.
Ron Wyden
I’m still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it’s generic beauty, but it’s weird to be valued for something I was born with.
Josie Maran
The word deepfake has become a generic noun for the use of machine-learning algorithms and facial-mapping technology to digitally manipulate people’s voices, bodies and faces. And the technology is increasingly so realistic that the deepfakes are almost impossible to detect.
Ben Sasse
I didn’t want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I’m not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.
Colin Hanks