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• ...Dealing with these sexual disorders, you ask 'what is it supposed to look like?' 'what's the norm?' The norm is the heterosexual design of the body

  Scott Lively

  Gay, Design, Body

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• Woman for whom Botox and fillers are the norm don't feel dressed without it. It's like going to the hairdresser's for them. Also, famously, lipstick sales go up in a recession: you may not be able to afford the shoes and the dress but you are sure going to keep your lips pillow perfect.

  Imogen Edwards-Jones

  Fashion, Shoes, Clothes

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• We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. ... The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.

  Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

  Army, Men, Thinking

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• Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  People, Interesting, Ballet

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• If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the Gospels seriously, how can we not see industrial warfare - with its inevitable massacre of innocents - as a most shocking perversion? By the standard of all scriptures, neglect of the poor, of widows and orphans, of the sick, the homeless, the insane, is an abominable perversion.

  Wendell Berry

  Widows And Orphans, Sick, Insane

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• I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

  Tyne Daly

  Exception

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our society’s failure to recognize and care for the social and emotional well-being of our boys contributes to a nation of young men who navigate adversity and conflict with an incomplete emotional skill set. Whether boys and later men have chosen to resist or conform to this masculine norm, there is loneliness, anxiety, and pain.

  Jennifer Siebel Newsom

  Pain, Loneliness, Adversity

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• Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old norm.

  Pope Clement VIII

  Church, Sacred, Solicitude

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• We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

  Carl Bernstein

  Fun, Stupid, Creating

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• And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Mean, Mad

  Stephen Fry (2003). “Revenge: A Novel”, p.158, Random House

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• When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Crazy, Political, Littles

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• Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

  Betty Buckley

  Art, Musical, Actors

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• I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

  Anne Parillaud

  Law, Feelings, Live In The Moment

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• I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

  Ludacris

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms.

  Amber Valletta

  Sexy, Hair, Liberating

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• Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.

  Anil Ambani

  Prejudice, Culture, Advertising

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• We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is what moves the stars through the heavens and the earth through its seasons. The final norm of judgment concerning the success or failure of our technologies is the extent to which they enable us to participate more fully in this grand festival.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Stars, Moving

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• Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth Is, Truth And Falsehood, Falsehood

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Growing Up, Kids, Snitch

  "Stop Snitchin'". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. April 22, 2007.

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• I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity.

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Fun, Two

  "Escher on Escher: exploring the infinite". Book by J. W. Vermeulen, H. N. Abrams, 1989.

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• At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

  Sean Parker

  People, Groups, Social

  "Friending the New York Scene" by Laura M. Holson, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2011.

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• Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.

  Bill Hayden

  Kernel

  "Interview with Cosmoe's Bill Hayden". Interview with Eugenia Loli, www.osnews.com. May 13, 2002.

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• As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  People, Good Things, Ends

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• Organic is something we can all partake of and benefit from. When we demand organic, we are demanding poison-free food. We are demanding clean air. We are demanding pure, fresh water. We are demanding soil that is free to do its job and seeds that are free of toxins. We are demanding that our children be protected from harm. We all need to bite the bullet and do what needs to be done—buy organic whenever we can, insist on organic, fight for organic and work to make it the norm. We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.

  Maria Rodale

  Jobs, Children, Fighting

  Maria Rodale (2010). “Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe”, p.192, Rodale

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• For those searching for something more than just the norm. We lay it all down, including what others call sanity, for just a few moments on waves larger than life. We do this because we know there is still something greater than all of us. Something that inspires us spiritually. We start going down hill, when we stop taking risks.

  Laird Hamilton

  Inspire, Surfing, Risk

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