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• I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hero, Loss, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Deviate

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• The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

  David Brin

  Essence, Patterns, Emotion

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• When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Hands, Games

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• In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

  Frank Zappa

  Order, Passing, Acquaintance

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• All societies establish laws that become norms. Those norms create the environment that incubates society. So, when you implement the laws of God in society, they produce a culture of heaven.

  Myles Munroe

  Law, Heaven, Culture

  Source: encomium.ng

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• To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

  Alex Campbell

  Conquer, Natural, Process

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• It's because the idea of what's cool is different. When you talk to a girl who goes to regular school, what's cool is whether or not you've been to jail, or if you have a car. If you talk to a girl who goes to art school, what's cool to her is if you do art projects on the weekend with your dad, if you can build something - out-of-the-norm stuff.

  Anthony Mackie

  Girl, Art, Dad

  "What Anthony Mackie Can Do in a Day". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2012.

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• If you pitch your movie to someone and they say, "Oh, please, don't make that. No one would see it." Do it! Because that means you may have something that's not the norm.

  Matthew Bonifacio

  Mean, May, Please

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Every time someone reads a story about the politics poisoning the global warming stuff it makes it feel like a political story, meaning it's Us and Them, instead of what it is: this profound challenge we face given our energy norms right now, the fuels of convenience toward something new. No matter what the politics are, it's still an enormous transformation that has to take place.

  Andrew Revkin

  Profound, Political, Challenges

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• More and more families today are sending both parents into the workforce - t's become the norm, it's what we now expect. The overwhelming majority of us do it because we think it will make our families more secure. But that's not how things have worked out.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  Thinking, Parent, Majority

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If higher summer temperatures become the norm in the future, people will adjust. Perhaps they'll take naps more frequently in the afternoon and convert their houses accordingly. The good thing is that all of these changes will not happen overnight, but in the space of decades. We still have enough time to react.

  Hans von Storch

  Summer, Naps, Space

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

  Jim Gilmore

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice and the lack of generally accepted norms as to what art should be and how an artist's career should go and all that.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Art, Careers, Curiosity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In a way they were slightly subconscious but reactions to that condition and a way to posit new possibilities within certain pervasive norms.

  David Adjaye

  Frustration, Cities, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rifkin's assertions bear no relationship to what I have observed and practiced for 25 years ... Either I am blind or he is wrong - and I think I can show, by analyzing his slipshod scholarship and basic misunderstanding of science, that his world is an invention constructed to validate his own private hopes ... Rifkin shows no understanding of the norms and procedures of science: he displays little comprehension of what science is and how scientists work.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Years, Understanding

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• You gotta chill and relax, and release, meditate, and breathe and walk, and ski and surf, and bask and sunbathe and relax and sing and love and laugh and nurture yourself, and eat good stuff. And find better and better feeling thoughts and practice them until they become the norm. And then everything that life has caused you to become must manifest into your experience.

  Esther Hicks

  Practice, Laughing, Feelings

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• I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Class, Firsts, Grades

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• Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Important, Might, Term

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• But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Beauty, People, Mind

  "Gaudy Night".

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• Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Self, Giving

  Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”

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• I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Style, Opponents

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.270, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

  Martin Filler

  Design, Quality, Typical

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• Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Pay, Belief

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• Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Country, Writing, Stories

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