Normal Life Quotes - Page 7

• In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'

  Bill Buford

  Mean, Simplicity, Use

  Bill Buford (2013). “Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany”, p.100, Random House

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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

  Normal, Internet, Economy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Home, Other Worlds, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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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• I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about the pitfalls trans resistance faces, in particular the temptation to focus on legal equality and the limitations of that approach, and the alternative approaches being taken by racial and economic justice focused trans activists.

  Dean Spade

  Taken, Thinking, Justice

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

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• I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who are not primarily engaging as theorists or theory-readers. Being able to make ideas visual, especially critical ideas about movements that can be difficult to hear because of attachments we have to certain national narratives, or because of ways that we see ourselves, is especially useful.

  Dean Spade

  Attachment, Talking, Ideas

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

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• I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Cancer, Normal, Proof

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• I live a very normal life. I have friends, and I've always gone to school. The part that's not normal is that I've been working since I was 9 months old, but at the same time, it's completely normal to me.

  Ashley Olsen

  School, Gone, Months

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• My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.

  Kim Smith

  People, Achievement, Who Cares

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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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• My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

  Andrew Skurka

  Pride, Identity, Needs

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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• Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

  Harold Laski

  Wisdom, Liberty, Normal

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• My family would soon tell me if I was getting above my station. I love what I do, I love my job, but I also like to go home and lead a normal life. ... I like to go to the gym, go shopping and do normal things, and it's totally unnecessary to not value people working around you. It's down to good manners, really.

  Kerry Ellis

  Jobs, Home, Shopping

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• When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

  Clemence Poesy

  Normal, Fame, Position

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• I like normal life, but I will go crazy if Im not working.

  Joey King

  Crazy, Normal, Ifs

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• Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never had. I was always traveling. I had tours. I wanted my kids to settle down, and we kind of did it together.... It was a bumpy transition. There was no director telling me what to do. No script, but I really enjoyed it. I even became president of the PTA. Doing the laundry was a meditative experience. Now, when I start to get nervous and stressed, I go in and start to fold towels.

  Pia Zadora

  Mom, Kids, Years

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• The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Jewels, Empires

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 121, 1982.

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• Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

  Mika

  Normal, Candid, Feels

  "The Nowhere Boy: Mika Finds Confidence in Coming Out". Interview with Zack Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Not only weight loss surgery is unnecessary but also it deprives human being a normal life. People after surgery would never be able to enjoy their food ever for the rest of their life whether it is Christmas or they are on their holidays or their child birthday or any other festival. List of problems and complications after the weight loss surgery operation are endless as one may get additional problems such as Hernia, Internal Bleeding, Swelling of the skin around the wounds, etc. I wonder how many weight loss surgeons advice about weight loss surgery to their own family members.

  Subodh Gupta

  Children, Holiday, Loss

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• I feel sorry for people in power. I feel sorry for the Queen, in a way, that she hasn't had a normal life. It'd difficult for me to hate anyone. Immediately someone's unpopular, I feel sorry for them.

  Ricky Gervais

  Queens, Sorry, Hate

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

  Merrill Markoe

  Reality, Thinking, Elements

  Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Obviously in the world of sports, you go through different ups and downs than in normal life. You might be on top of the world playing or you're sidelined with an injury.

  Tobin Heath

  Sports, Different, World

  "A conversation with U.S. women’s soccer team member Tobin Heath". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• You're so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you're sitting at home and there's nothing going on that day. I remember the first time we got off one of our first big tours, I told my guys, "Go home to your girlfriends." The next day, all my guys texted me like, "Do you wanna, like, do something? Let's all go bowling. I can't hang with people that live normal lives."

  Lzzy Hale

  Girlfriend, Home, Next Day

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

  Holly Madison

  Motivation, Challenges, Normal

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