Abnormal Quotes

• To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

  William James

  Philosophical, Understanding, Way

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• Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.

  Asger Jorn

  Originality, Unreasonable

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• Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

  Cory Doctorow

  Normal, Common

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.121, Macmillan

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• An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Behavior, Reactions, Situation

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.

  Jerry Falwell

  Stress, Men, Imagine

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• Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Behaviour, Novelists

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• Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Taught Us, Deities, Physical Science

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• I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

  Emma Watson

  People, Feelings, Trying

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• Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

  William Osler

  Life, Health, Law

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.189, Ravenio Books

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• I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Character, Tragedy, Unusual

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

  Tim Burton

  Confused, Real, People

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• We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

  Edward Abbey

  Sick, Normal

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

  Ugo Betti

  Names, Giving, Mad

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Choices, Adults, Libertarian

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• Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

  Rich Lowry

  Class, Psychology, Als

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• An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mania, Grandeur, Possessed

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Nathan Haskell Dole (1911). “The Complete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

  George Takei

  Gun, Wire, Would Be

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

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• You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Positive, Negative

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.538, D. H. Lawrence

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• Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

  Temple Grandin

  Parenting, Emotional, White

  "A Conversation with Temple Grandin". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

  Camille Paglia

  Zero, Identity, Privilege

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.107, Vintage

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• When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Criticism, Littles, Results

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• Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.

  E. O. Wilson

  Law, Environmental, Earth

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• It is not possible to think of a way of screening out effectively the most appropriate embryos, and hence, what we should expect would be late abortions - either occurring spontaneously or being induced deliberately in the second or third trimester of pregnancy - in order to prevent the birth of abnormal children.

  Ian Wilmut

  Children, Pregnancy, Thinking

  "Scientists blast human cloning plans". www.cnn.com. August 8, 2001.

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• I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

  Dirk Benedict

  Long Ago, Medical Bills, Normalcy

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• If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

  Carol Alt

  Food, Ice Cream, Hungry

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

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