Normal Quotes - Page 11

• It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.

  Brigham Young

  Utah, Exotic, Common

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• Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.

  John Muir

  Buddhist, People, Needs

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• There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Way, Human Condition

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• It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world. Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Radical Change

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• The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

  John R. Rice (2000). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.237, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Reality, Self, Essence

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• We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a saint, that's just someone who's somewhat online with life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Saint, Abnormal, World

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• I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.

  Johnny Depp

  Alcohol, Drug, Way

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• People could connect with me... I think the appeal was that, "Here he is, he's just a normal guy like us, and he's giving it his all".

  B.J. Penn

  Thinking, Mma, People

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• Most of the awesome people I know are just normal people who were insanely driven.

  Jason Ellis

  Mma, People, Driven

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• We all have secrets, some secrets bigger than others, is a normal human thing.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Secret, Bigger, Humans

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I like searching for the collision detection boundaries, finding invincibility glitches, and purposefully doing other stuff that normal players aren't supposed to do. In order words, I'm a bug checker.

  Hidetaka Suehiro

  Player, Order, Stuff

  "Beer, Masturbation, And Twin Peaks: A Conversation With Swery65". Interview with Patrick Klepek, kotaku.com. May 1, 2015.

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• People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?

  Domhnall Gleeson

  People, Annoyed, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One thing I've found that's really helpful in our relationship is that she's [Anna Faris] very normal. And I don't mean ordinary - I mean, she doesn't act like a big star or a comic icon or anything like that. She's really down-to-earth and sweet, and we do talk about comedy, about movies, about our careers and possible projects.

  Chris Pratt

  Sweet, Stars, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing.

  Robert Simonds

  Marketing, Hollywood, Distribution

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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 really got consumed with the idea of how people who are deemed crazy or insane often have a firmer grasp on reality than normal people. The average person goes through life thinking it will go on forever.

  Youth Lagoon

  Crazy, Reality, Thinking

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.

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• As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness or unfitness of natural selection; and especially scarlet fever affected boys seriously, both physically and in character, though they might through life puzzle themselves to decide whether it had fitted or unfitted them for success.

  Henry Adams

  Character, Mean, Boys

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.10, Booklassic

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• We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.

  Daryl Gates

  People, Veins, May

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• It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.

  Ira Glass

  Ambition, Fighting, Way

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• If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.

  William Eckhardt

  Running, Winning, Player

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• It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

  William Eckhardt

  Easier, Should, Tendencies

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• People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.

  William Eckhardt

  Lying, Views, People

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• Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

  William Eckhardt

  Tendencies, Humans

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• I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.

  Nick Vujicic

  Coffee, Two, Feet

  "Interview: Limbless Nick Vujicic on Secret of Being Joyful". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. December 4, 2010.

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