Normal Quotes

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  If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Success, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Mar 09, 2017

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  Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

  Albert Camus

  Funny, Positivity, Bad Ass

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  Alfred Adler

  Drinking, Humor, Knowing

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• Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

  Jodie Foster

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Being Yourself

  "Diamonds, Pearls & Stones : Jewels of Wisdom for Young Women from Extraordinary Women of the World". Book by Barbara Warren Holden and Jennifer Read Hawthorne, 2004.

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• How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Valentines Day

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• Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Bullying, Fun, Machines

  "Whoopi Goldberg in full flight". Interview with Cole Morton, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Real

  Deepak Chopra (1995). “Creating Health: How to Wake Up the Body's Intelligence”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

  Chris Burke

  Different, Way, Down Syndrome

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• What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

  Charlie Sheen

  Jobs, Dad, Class

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

  Bill Paxton

  Age, Demented, Backgrounds

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• I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

  Mike Tyson

  Love, Sports, People

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• Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Baby, Love Life, Animal

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Order, Literature

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

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• I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Feeling a little blue in January is normal.

  Marilu Henner

  Blue, Feelings, Littles

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• I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Home, Thinking, Shopping

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• Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Suicide, Weapons, Impulse

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• But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.

  Jose Mourinho

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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• Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

  Miranda Richardson

  People, Insecurity, Weakness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

  Winona Ryder

  Confused, Perfect, Feelings

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• I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Easy, Normal Life

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• To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Awards, Noise

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• As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

  George Will

  Communication, Noise, Language

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

  Norman O. Brown

  Freedom, Common Sense, Liberty

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• Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Character, Easy, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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