Normal Quotes - Page 21

• My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.

  Lisa Gardner

  Mother, Father, Perfectly Normal

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• in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

  Radclyffe Hall

  World, This World, Toleration

  Radclyffe Hall (2015). “The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction”, p.394, Anchor

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• That's got to be at least one of the benefits of heaven - never having to act normal again.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Heaven, Benefits

  Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.49, Scholastic Inc.

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• Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all.

  Shere Hite

  Children, Two, Parent

  Shere Hite (2011). “The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life”, p.411, Seven Stories Press

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• Every family is a 'normal' family - no matter whether it has one parent, two or no children at all. A family can be made up of any combination of people, heterosexual or homosexual, who share their lives in an intimate (not necessarily sexual) way. ... Wherever there is lasting love, there is a family.

  Shere Hite

  Family, Children, Two

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• the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of capitalist development.

  Peter Dicken

  Development, Economic, Process

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.200, SAGE

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• Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens one's perception of the creation of the world, while travel extends one's field of vision.

  Mahmud Tarzi

  Reading, Two, Perception

  "The Destiny of Doris: A Travel-story of Three Continents" by Julius Chambers, (Preface), 1914.

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• Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will always feel unfulfilled. There is no problem with feeling unfulfilled. In fact, if you learn to see it the right way, that very lack of fulfillment is the greatest thing you can ever experience.' This is the realistic outlook.

  Brad Warner

  Learning, Buddhism, Feelings

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.17, New World Library

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• According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don't understand yourself, you're uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you're anxious, Buddha's teaching is to practice being patient with it.

  Reb Anderson

  Teaching, Practice, Scared

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• In the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch with human beings is fraught with a significance lacking in the too hurried intercourse of ordinary everyday life. On the desert track, there is no such thing as a casual meeting.

  Mildred Cable

  Track, Everyday, Ordinary

  Mildred Cable, Francesca French (1944). “The Gobi Desert”

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• If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

  Vera Caspary

  Dream, Men, Would Be

  Laura ch. 2 (1943)

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• The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal experience. Real sex, the sex in our cells and in the space between our neurons, leaks out and gets into things and stains our vision and colors our lives.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Sex, Real, Cells

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• If I had a normal life Id quite cheerfully go mad and fall over right now

  Kurt Wagner

  Fall, Mad, Right Now

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• There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.

  Gwen Stefani

  Play, Together, Trying

  Source: perezhilton.com

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• Like every normal person, I hate my voice. And I am not the only one who hates my voice. The voiceover gets a lot of strong reactions. A lot of people love it, and a few people truly hate it and pronounce the films are unwatchable because of my Latvian accent. But it also has a certain level of theatricality, and everything is important for a manic character.

  Signe Baumane

  Strong, Hate, Character

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• One thing I try to do with my work is to show that people who have extreme fetishes or who exist outside the constraints of "normal" society still have romantic impulses and are capable of love and tenderness. Sometimes people cannot or don't want to acknowledge that pornographers are people too!

  Bruce LaBruce

  People, Trying, Want

  Interview with Jane Harris, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.

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• I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I began that way and so, that's the way it is. My ritual is I never use a typewriter or computer. I just write it all by hand. It's a ceremony. I go to a stationary store and buy a notebook and then fill it up.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Notebook, Writing, Hands

  Source: allwomenstalk.com

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• I'm pretty normal. Tthe type of day I love is just like everybody else's. I'm like everybody else.

  Britney Spears

  Love Is, Type

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Being in relationship is not living in a fantasyland and don`t think that everything's going to be perfect all the time. You will go through phases where you're just not getting along. You're not communicating well. That's going to happen, and it's going to feel impossible to you sometimes. It might not even make sense to you sometimes. Arguments are normal. You have to be patient and sit through that and remember that this is a part of human communication and interaction. You're going to have these conflicts with anyone. It's not necessarily just that person.

  Megan Fox

  Communication, Thinking, Perfect

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.

  Steve Martin

  Song, Crazy, Want

  Source: bolstablog.wordpress.com

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• The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

  John Updike

  Writing, Humanity, May

  "Revisiting John Updike's 'Fresh Air' Interviews". www.npr.org. March 16, 2012.

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• Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, War, Grief

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I don't know why I am internally a violent person. I don't have the normal nerve endings most people do, which was very good for me as a pilot in Viet Nam. When most people are afraid, I'm actually quite excited about things. The more dangerous something is, the happier I am.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Nerves, Pilots

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• When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

  Demi Lovato

  Thinking, Soul, Mind

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.

  Nancy Mairs

  Self, Ordinary World, People

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