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• I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange.

  Christofer Drew

  Thinking, People, Strange

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• Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

  Anna Netrebko

  Beautiful, Home, Thinking

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• The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.

  Jaak Panksepp

  Play, Brain, Rats

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• Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Advantage

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.92, New Victoria Publishers

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• Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and remain in his normal condition. We did not drink Bourbon, but blood.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Mean, Men, Blood

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.80, Vanderbilt University Press

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• The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

  Margaret Mead

  Thinking, Behavior, Sexuality

  Redbook magazine, 1975.

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• In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

  Shana Alexander

  Acceptance, Cult Of Personality, Quality

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• And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

  Anita Loos

  Stars, World, Film

  Anita Loos (1951). “A Mouse is Born”

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• There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.

  Marilyn Manson

  Wall, Thinking, Civilization

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• The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

  Karen Horney

  Culture, Courses, Conception

  Karen Horney (2013). “The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time”, p.15, Routledge

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• There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.

  Karen Horney

  People, Psychology

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• We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Food, Wine, Cooking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Summer, Writing, Play

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Sometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.

  Billy Eichner

  People, Looks, Littles

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.

  Anthony Mackie

  Hipster, Guy, Feel Good

  "How Anthony Mackie Got Big For 'Pain & Gain'". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. April 27, 2013.

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• To be an artist and to be recognized by another artist who is, you know, just something you can't even put into words, someone that is so far beyond what the normal human being experience is in terms of creativity and originality. That was kind of a moment where I thought wow maybe I do have something more that makes me special.

  Misty Copeland

  Creativity, Artist, Special

  Source: bknation.org

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• I grew up in the Philippines, and I don’t think there is a problem with the typhoon. It’s normal for us.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Thinking, Philippines, Problem

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. November 13, 2009.

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• I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.

  Kate Moss

  Trying, Honest, I Can

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• The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.

  Elinor Glyn

  Loss, Self, California

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• Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!

  Elinor Glyn

  Running, Ambition, Animal

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• Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

  Edna Buchanan

  Knows, Seems

  Edna Buchanan (2005). “Shadows: A Novel”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Past, History, Healthy

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• Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.

  Elaine Morgan

  Men, Two, Mammals

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• even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Happiness, Health, Men

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• only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

  Helene Deutsch

  Psychology, Partition, Diseased

  Helene Deutsch (1973). “Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue”, W. W. Norton

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