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• Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

  Germaine Greer

  Military, Real, Hero

  "Daddy, We Hardly Knew You". Book by Germaine Greer, 1989.

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• Normal people think I'm insane.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, People, Insane

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• It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.

  Karl Kraus

  Lust, Destruction, Particular

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.)

  Randall Jarrell

  Cutting, Artist, People

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 29), 1955.

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• If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.

  Evan Esar

  Differences, Different, Want

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• Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

  Katsuki Sekida

  Philosophy, Views, Practice

  Katsuki Sekida (2005). “Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy”, p.211, Shambhala Publications

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• A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent
  if he acts normal.

  Judith Viorst

  Ifs

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

  Jessie J

  Hurt, Pain, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The concept of time, as it’s commonly understood by normal people with normal jobs and normal goddamn lives, doesn’t exist on the road. The nights spread out like the dark, godforsaken highways that distinguish them, and the days run together like Thanksgiving dinner smothered in gravy. You never really know where you are or what time it is, and the outside world starts to fade away. It’s cool.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Running, Jobs, Dark

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.198, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The normal 21-year-old doesn't have to worry about their night out being put on TMZ.

  Lauren Conrad

  Night, Years, Worry

  "Lauren Conrad" by Dan Today, www.seventeen.com. September 29, 2007.

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• I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, "I'm happy all the time! I'm a joker! I'm a crazy man!" I think people understand that I can turn that switch on but that I'm also a sensitive, normal human being with feelings and I know how to express those too.

  Jim Carrey

  Crazy, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Devin Faracii, www.chud.com. December 20, 2005.

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• Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms - what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.

  Alain de Botton

  Law, Ideas, Errors

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticisms of his work is due to the fact that white racism against Africa is such a normal way of thinking that its manifestations go completely unremarked.

  Chinua Achebe

  Simple, Thinking, White

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.26, Anchor

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• Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

  James Thomas Fields

  Owl, Fault Finding, Faults

  James Thomas Fields, “The Owl-Critic”

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• People are disappearing from movies, and normal human behaviour is disappearing from movies... You are not always fighting a creature in life. That's part of life, it's a pretty big part of life, but it's not all of life.

  Judd Apatow

  Fighting, People, Behaviour

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If prosperity means God wants us to be blessed and healthy and have good relationships then yes, I'm a prosperity teacher. But if it's about money, no, I never preach about money. I probably stay away from it more than normal because televangelists get a bad name. People put me in that category because I do believe that God does want us to be happy, healthy, and whole.

  Joel Osteen

  Teacher, Blessed, Believe

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• There aren't enough professionals to solve the world's problems. There will never be enough doctors to solve the health problems of the world. There will never be enough teachers to solve the education problems of the world - illiteracy. There will never be enough missionaries to care and comfort and share the Good News. It has to be done by normal, ordinary people.

  Rick Warren

  Teacher, Doctors, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My happiness came from learning my purpose, which is to be honest and to share things that normal people probably wouldn't share, in an effort to support and uplift other women. I love that my journey gives other women hope, letting them see how far God can bring a soul.

  Karrine Steffans

  Uplifting, Journey, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Talking, Ideas, Laughing

  "Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: ‘Hot Pocket’ Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.

  Paul Schrader

  Believe, Ends, Situation

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, Parent, Healthy

  "Best Actress Nominee Jennifer Lawrence Heats Up Winter’s Bone". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments.

  James Elkins

  Artist, Achievement, Ambitious

  James Elkins (2005). “Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings”, p.6, Routledge

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• We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Atheist, Attitude, Groups

  "More And Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon". Book by Philip Warren Anderson, 2011.

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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

  Candid, Normal Life, Feels

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

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• All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Race, Two, Glands

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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