Normal Quotes - Page 36

• I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.

  Gwen Stefani

  Sweet, Parent, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeois should pay homage. This all sounds absurd. But for Russians it is completely normal.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Russia, Sound, Pay

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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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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• From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.

  Bill Nighy

  Mean, Views, Play

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, People, Guy

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• Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Men, Thinking, White Man

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• I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

  Courtney Love

  Eccentric, Way, Extraordinary

  Source: www.gaycalgary.com

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• We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Treats, Operators, Conditions

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.74, Hackett Publishing

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• Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Individual, Defence

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• I just love the subversion of dialogue in sitcoms, stand-up is monologue and that is entertaining for a lot of people but personally I find it a bit trying, which is a weird thing to say as a stand-up! I love people aping normal conversation and twisting it so it becomes hilarious.

  Doc Brown

  People, Trying, Weird Things

  Source: www.sevenstreets.com

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• One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

  Rob Bell

  Loneliness, Mean, Gay

  Source: capro.info

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• United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything on my own and turning it in to them and having it rejected or accepted, I was working much more directly with the syndicate, turning in smaller batches much more frequently, and getting comments on them. The idea was that they would help me develop the strip and then, assuming that they liked it, it would flow into a normal contract for syndication.

  Bill Watterson

  Ideas, Development, Flow

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• Most people believe that aging is normal but nobody defines what normal aging is.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, People, Aging

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• I love seeing black people do normal things, being judged as normal people.

  Chris Rock

  People, Black, Being Judged

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.

  Sally Potter

  Writing, Hands, Solitude

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You take a normal guy, give him a wife, give them time, and you've got AN IDIOT!

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, Giving

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• I'm not a racist. It's really case by case; it's not ethnicity specific. It's just the way I react to things that are different. I think that's normal. Everyone's nervous when they're confronted with things that they don't understand or are different. That's a normal human reaction. It doesn't become racist 'til you say things like, 'Oh, there's a lot of them.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I had been meaning to knock it down to negative 1000.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Self Esteem, Humor

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• 'Normal Life' looks at the current moment in trans politics, understanding that it is often assumed that trans resistance strategies should mimic the lesbian and gay legal rights frameworks that have become so visible in recent decades.

  Dean Spade

  Gay, Rights, Understanding

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.

  Mario Bunge

  And Love, Taste, Birth

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Distance, Goal, Wakes You

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind.

  Tim Lambesis

  Song, Home, Writing

  Source: www.rocksins.com

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• There's news that happens in different spheres and can be made just as funny, but it's not necessarily in the normal news medium.

  Trevor Noah

  Different, News, Spheres

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The only time I had a normal boyfriend was during the time of AIDS, so maybe that saved me. It's certainly not karma.

  John Waters

  Karma, Aids, Saved

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his own pleasure, even if it harms others; the natural man, who wants to please both himself and others; and the spiritual man, who wants to please only God, even if it harms himself. The first is lower than human nature, the second is normal, the third is above nature; it is life in Christ.

  Tito Colliander

  Spiritual, Men, Three

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