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• It's funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it - I just thought it was normal.

  Alana Blanchard

  Thinking, Surfing, Tiny

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• Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. Its always my place to come back and feel normal again.

  Alana Blanchard

  Kind, Feels

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• When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibiting some other behavioral aberration. Of course, now we know that's just normal Aspergian behavior, but back then other people thought it was weird, so of course I did, too. One day, for some reason, she decided to try petting my arm, and I immediately stopped rocking and fidgeting. The result was so dramatic, she never stopped. It didn't take long for me to realize the calming effect, too. I like being petted and scratched. "Can you pet me?" I say when I sit next to her.

  John Elder Robison

  Feet, Calming Effect, Long

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• Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

  Tahj Mowry

  Growing Up, School, Eye

  "'Smart Guy' Tahj Mowry: From Child Star To Adult Actor". Interview with Brooke Obie, www.ebony.com. October 8, 2012.

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• New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.

  Jesse Schell

  Brother, Track, Cameras

  "Why games will take over our lives". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.

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• I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.

  Cynthia Breazeal

  Cowboy, Technology, Government

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• Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

  Henry Williamson

  People, Imagination, Healthy

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• Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than none. Since many girls as well as boys buy the idea that sexual aggression and exploitation is normal masculine behavior, it may not even occur to them to demand to be treated as equals.

  Leora Tanenbaum

  Girl, Acceptance, Boys

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• In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Mutation, Worms, Life Span

  "Sugar Shortens Life Span in Worms", abcnews.go.com. November 4, 2009.

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• If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Long, Mutants, Worms

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• Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Medicine, Lasts, Revolution

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• Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.

  John Darnielle

  Men, Shopping, Missing

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• If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.

  Alex Day

  Real, Home, Ideas

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• So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life And Death, Feel Good, Feelings

  "Death in the Afternoon" by Ernest Hemingway, (Ch. 1), 1932.

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• Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

  Will Cuppy

  People, May, Modern Life

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

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• If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Rooms, Temperature

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• What scientists want next is a thorough comparison of what we and exosolar planets and vagabonds look like. Only in this way will we know whether our home life is normal or whether we live in a dysfunctional solar family.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Home, Science, Way

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

  Roz Savage

  Office, Used, Normal Life

  "Oceans apart". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.

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• Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

  LZ Granderson

  Summer, Teacher, Fuel

  "The courage of teachers" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2013.

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• I'm not like normal people. I'm no good at relationships. I draw drama to me - it's the Jew in me.

  Diane Warren

  Drama, People, Jew

  "I've never been in love". Interview with Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2009.

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• There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it is human and all humanity is better than everything inhuman. So I urge you to keep expressing yourself as honestly as you can, and know that the backpedals and second-guesses really aren't necessary - they don't hurt but they're wasting your time - because when you are truly human, as we all are, and when that is your honest message to anyone, you are beyond reproach, there is no way to screw it up.

  Dan Harmon

  Hurt, People, Humanity

  Redit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 22, 2012.

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• I think for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

  Koren Zailckas

  Thinking, Emotion, Accepting

  "Getting Angry with author Koren Zailckas". Interview with Megan Johnson, www.bostonherald.com. September 27, 2010.

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• No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

  Irving Stone

  Artist, Happens

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• One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.

  Alain de Botton

  Giving Up, Home, Reality

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• And while I'm on the subject, let me say something about Harry Potter. [Gravels her voice.] Warlocks are enemies of God!! [Back to normal screech.] And I don't care what kind of hero they are, they're an enemy of God. And had it been in the Old Testament, Harry Potter woulda been put to death! [Applause.] You don't make heroes out of warlocks. This is the generation that's gonna stand for purity, an' righteousnesss, an' holiness, an' you're gonna serve the lord all the days of your life.

  Becky Fischer

  Hero, Voice, Scary

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