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• If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Long, Mutants, Worms

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• Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

  Will Cuppy

  People, May, Modern Life

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

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• If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Rooms, Temperature

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• I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

  Roz Savage

  Office, Used, Normal Life

  "Oceans apart". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.

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• Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

  LZ Granderson

  Summer, Teacher, Fuel

  "The courage of teachers" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2013.

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• I think for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

  Koren Zailckas

  Thinking, Emotion, Accepting

  "Getting Angry with author Koren Zailckas". Interview with Megan Johnson, www.bostonherald.com. September 27, 2010.

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• Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse.

  Sylvia Plath

  Dancing, Prelude, Intercourse

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.10, Anchor

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• Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Light, Characteristics

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• My music is just fresh. Everybody say it's a breath of fresh air because it's not like the normal Houston sound you would hear. I am from Houston and I use that same slang and I carry myself the same way as a Houstonian and I'm a Houston dude born and raised, but the music is a lil bit different due to the things I've seen and the things I've learned and put that into my music.

  Short Dawg

  Air, Houston, Way

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means.

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Scary, Groups

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• Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.

  John Darnielle

  Men, Shopping, Missing

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• Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.

  Frank Pittman

  Growing Up, Kids, Skills

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• Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Horse, Years

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.36, Faber & Faber

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• ... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.

  Timothy Gowers

  Confused, Science, Typical

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• I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

  Marion Bartoli

  Earth, Painting, Produce

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• I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles - that's when I felt good, normal, balanced.

  Daniel Coyle

  Heart, Energy, Tasks

  Daniel Coyle, Tyler Hamilton (2012). “The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs”, p.19, Random House

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• To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry that hisactions are harmful at the moment or may be injurious to his future. It does not help me as a parent nor lessen my worries when my child drives carelessly, even dangerously, if I am told that this is "normal" behavior for children of his age. I'd much prefer him to deviate from the norm and be a cautious driver!

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Hurt, Children, Worry

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• ... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Beauty, Labels, Mediocrity

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• In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about American movies, they go and see the thrillers, and Westerns, and science fiction, huge entertaining movies.

  Berenice Bejo

  Dream, People, Fiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility. From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful. From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise. And sometimes, from their envy of each other's special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.

  Adele Faber

  Clever, Sibling, Struggle

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• Maybe something is wrong with me but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.

  Marion Bartoli

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Wimbledon 2010: People's champion Marion Bartoli back to hold court". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee--not playing soccer, not playing football--but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.

  Judith Viorst

  Soccer, Football, Fall

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Medicine, Lasts, Revolution

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• My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

  Kelly Reilly

  Character, Important, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone wants to turn on their TV and have a break from their normal day.

  Megyn Price

  Want, Tvs, Break

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