There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: Difference between revisions

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# [[Shaped Like Itself|Tautologies]]: "There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who fit, and those who don't." Logically, this statement is self-evident: [[Captain Obvious|either you are, or you aren't]]. ("X, and everyone else" is another variation.)

{{quote|''The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.''}}

 

 

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== Comic Books ==

* From ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'':

{{quote|'''Alter:''' There are only two kinds of people, those above the earth and those beneath it. Which side do you choose?}}

== Fan Works ==

* The Joker from ''[[The Joker Blogs]]'' has a version with three kinds of people: "The optimistic who find the glass half full, and the pessimistic that see it as half-empty. Then there's the paranoid; they just think someone's drinking out of their glass." Of course, the Joker makes himself [[Take a Third Option|a fourth option]]: someone who tips the glass over.

 

== Film ==

** Blondie does a [[Call Back]] to this after {{spoiler|unloading Tuco's gun so that he could kill Angel Eyes in the final showdown}}:

{{quote|'''Blondie:''' There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend. Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.}}

{{quote|'''Tuco:''' There are two kinds of spurs in the world, my friend. Those that come by the door, and those that come through the window.}}

* [[Star Wars|Obi-Wan's]] infamous line in [[Revenge of the Sith|''Star Wars'' Episode 3]], "Only the Sith deal in absolutes!" combines this with bizarre hypocrisy. [[Jedi Truth|Not that bizarre hypocrisy is anything new for him.]]

{{quote|'''Domino Harvey:''' There are [[Take a Third Option|three]] kinds of people in the world: the poor, the rich, [[Take a Third Option|and everyone in between]].<ref>Also a pretty useless observation. What she's literally saying is "[[Captain Obvious|everybody fits]] ''[[Captain Obvious|somewhere]]'' [[Captain Obvious|on the wealth scale]]".</ref>}}

* ''[[My Big Fat Greek Wedding]]''. "There are two kinds of people in the world... Greeks... and people who ''wish'' they were Greeks."

{{quote|'''Gary Johnston'''': ''We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from assholes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!''}}

* In ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'', there are two types of "girls", according to John Travolta's character. "You gotta decide now, <s>Sandy</s> Annette. Are you gonna put out? You're either gonna be a nice girl or a cunt."

* In the Brazilian film ''Tropa de Elite'' (a.k.a. ''[[The Elite Squad]]'') the (arguably) protagonist/narrator says Brazilian cops have three options: omit themselves, corrupt themselves, or go to war.

* In the Japanese movie ''Swing Girls'', a jock-ish minor character seems to start all his sentences this way, leaving the protagonists on the negative end, of course. It isn't until the swing band's penultimate performance that he changes his mind.

* The infinitely preachy, [[So Bad It's Good]] film The [[Butter Cream Gang]] has the main characters ex-best friend say this line after he falls under a bad influence. "There are two people in the world: Your friends and your enemies." He doesn't seem to have anything in mind about people he's never met.

* In ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' these are "Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off."

* There's a ''[[Pokémon]]'' novelization which promisingly opened stating that there are two types of people in the world: people who catch and train Pokémon themselves and people who try to steal other people's Pokémon. The immediate audience reaction is: "What about those people who sit around and have no interest in Pokémon whatsoever?"

** Those are called dead people.

{{quote|It is said that there are two types of people in the world: those who look at a glass that is exactly half full and say, "This is glass is half full," and those who look at the same glass and say, "This glass is half empty." But the world is ''ruled'' by the people who look at the glass and say, "Excuse me? ''Excuse'' me? This is ''my'' glass? I don't ''think'' so. My glass was full. And I had a bigger glass!"}}

{{quote|'''Detritus''': Only ... ''(counts fingers)'' only two-er things come from Slice Mountain. Rocks, an' ... an' other sorts of rocks!}}

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110604053509/http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/9/20warner.html This] parody of David Brooks.

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', "Meltdown": When Rimmer is inspecting the troops, he tells St. Francis: "There's only two kinds from Assisi, steers and queers -- which are you, boy?"

** Which is, of course, homage to [[Full Metal Jacket]] in reference to things that come from Texas.

** It also doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], especially when you consider that had anyone else said that, it probably would have sounded rather arrogant. Somehow Sarah Jane saying it just makes it ''work.''

* From a season 7 episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': "There are two kinds of people: those who move on, and those who can't."

* From the [[Pushing Daisies]] episode ''Circus Circus'', the French acrobat tells Ned and Emerson that they are two types of people in the world- circus performers, and "stubs", those that watch.

== Music ==

* "Two kinds of people in this world. Winners, losers." - [[Fleetwood Mac|Lindsey Buckingham]], "Go Insane".

** ''There's only two types of guys out there: Ones that can hang with me, and ones that are scared''

* Subverted by the ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'' introduction to the song "A Kiss is Not a Contract":

** And it's actually necessary to say this line: Lloyd buried a landmine which will blow up in your face if you dig yourself.

** [[Older Than They Think|And this is of course a reference to the above-mentioned line from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly]]

{{quote|''"The way I see it, there's basically two types of people. Most of them are guys like me. Guys that sit on the couch, we might not like the shit that happens to us, but we deal with it. Then there are guys like you."''}}

 

== Web Comics ==

* There are two kinds of pedestrians in Rome: the fast ones and the dead ones.

* There are two types of people in this world. One is people who can infer based on what they're given.

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* Probably not the last word on the subject, but there are two types of people in the world: Those who divide people into two types and those that don't.

* There are two kinds of women who enlist in the Navy: [[Really Gets Around|Bikes]] and [[Butch Lesbian|Dykes]].

* There are two kinds of women in the world: Sluts and my Mother.

* [[Billy West]] was sufficiently disgruntled after working with [[The Ren and Stimpy Show|John Kricfalusi]] that his website once separated people into two categories: "''Ren And Stimpy'' fans" and "human beings".

 

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