Normal Quotes - Page 34

• There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.

  Lorenzo Lamas

  Reality, Media, People

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

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• I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, its just another normal.

  Lea Salonga

  Brother, Cousin, Gay

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• One of my earliest memories is being backstage at Bran Nue Dae in Darwin when I was about eight. Its such a fun, happy show and a real celebration of being Aboriginal... it felt really great and achievable as a career. It all felt normal.

  Shari Sebbens

  Fun, Memories, Real

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• By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Skills, Acting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, Emotional, Autism

  "Temple Grandin On The Secret To Success For Kids With Autism". Interview with Macrina Cooper-White, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2014.

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• The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

  Edward Snowden

  Internet, Economy, Monitoring

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No, I like normal life but I will go crazy if I'm not working. I'll say to my mom, "I'm going crazy! I'm going stir crazy!" I love my house. I love my family. I love my animals. Sometimes, I just want to work whether its on location here in Michigan or back in LA. I just want to work, work, work. It's what I want to do with the rest of my life so, yes, I do go a little bit crazy when I'm not working.

  Joey King

  Mom, Crazy, Animal

  Source: collider.com

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• Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  Melvin Konner

  Mother, Flower, Sleep

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• I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

  Omar Sharif

  Son, Grandchildren, Ideas

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• But what I want most of all is a normal life.

  Mary Bell

  Want, Normal Life

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• Our top story, in 'Threat Matrix Reloaded' news ... Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Muller held a press conference today to announce that Al Qaeda is planning attacks somewhere inside the United States at sometime in the future. So go about your normal lives, but with a vague sense of foreboding.

  Craig Kilborn

  Directors, United States, News

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• You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations.

  Paulo Coelho

  Adversity, Long, Laughing

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• Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

  Adam Levine

  People, Statistics, Used

  "Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex". Book by Judith Levine, 2003.

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• The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Ignorance, Thinking, Average

  Karl A. Menninger (1953). “the Human Mind”

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• It’s fun to be in a place where ridiculous is normal.

  Eddie Kaye Thomas

  Fun, Ridiculous

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• Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Looks, Exhausted

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• ... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.

  Warren Buffett

  Important, Fiscal Policy, Investing

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• The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom. If you merely try to bring just a little extra knowledge and cleverness to bear upon your investment program, instead of realizing a little better than normal results, you may well find that you have done worse.

  Benjamin Graham

  Art, Effort, Trying

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Humanity, Speech, Mark

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• To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Expression, Healthy, Becoming

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.137, University of Chicago Press

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• Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Art, Evolution

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• I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Children, Mind, Bitter

  'Journal of a Disappointed Man' (1919) 23 Oct. 1910

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• Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists, musicians-have a higher than normal incidence of such illnesses, and there are also a disproportionate number of alcoholics in these fields whose drinking may be an attempt to medicate the anxiety of depression.

  Tracy Thompson

  Depression, Drinking, Artist

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• I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Children, Capacity To Love, Healthy

  D. W. Winnicott, Helen Taylor Robinson (2016). “The Collected Works of D.W. Winnicott”, p.47, Oxford University Press

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• There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so angry, and anti-Castro. I found out as soon as we got there. The people were treated terrible. The conditions were terrible. I can see why people risk their lives and limbs to get out. (Fidel Castro) lives like a king and won't help anybody, and has everybody scared to death. Nobody lives a normal life. It was still a good experience, but I thought we should just play that one game.

  Albert Belle

  Kings, Games, Play

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