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Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means.

Antonin Scalia

Mean, Scary, Groups

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I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don't think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I'm going to try and help improve the world.

Bill Gates

Thinking, Issues, People

"Transcript: Bill Gates' Lessons from Leaders interview". Interview with Lois Romano, www.politico.com. September 30, 2014.

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The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live.

Eckhart Tolle

Stressed, Way To Live, World

Source: rayhemachandra.com

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Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

Eckhart Tolle

Stress, Our World, Suffering

Source: rayhemachandra.com

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Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

Tom Hardy

Vanity, People, Doe

"Tom Hardy Talks Grown-Up Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. July 19, 2012.

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I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.

Tom Shadyac

People, World, Models

Source: www.esquire.com

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I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal conversation. But I think when you're making something aggressive and you need to get a point across, if you're angry, sometimes profanity is necessary. It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

Marilyn Manson

Hurt, Thinking, Needs

Source: www.foxnews.com

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My music is just fresh. Everybody say it's a breath of fresh air because it's not like the normal Houston sound you would hear. I am from Houston and I use that same slang and I carry myself the same way as a Houstonian and I'm a Houston dude born and raised, but the music is a lil bit different due to the things I've seen and the things I've learned and put that into my music.

Short Dawg

Air, Houston, Way

Source: www.complex.com

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When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.

Joan Didion

Doctors, Light, Perfectly Normal

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Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like a normal person or sleep, if you want it hard enough and do it well enough, it happens. A lot of really talented people either sort of get crushed under the wheel of the movie studio system or desperately try and get their next gig in TV. I understand why, because we've all got to put food on the table and the brass ring is out there, we'd all like to be making the Emmy-winning shows and the blockbusters and all that, but at the same time you could be doing stuff yourself.

Joss Whedon

Giving Up, Sleep, Winning

Source: www.complex.com

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Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Light, Characteristics

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After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.

Albert Camus

Freedom, Way, Injustice

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Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse.

Sylvia Plath

Dancing, Prelude, Intercourse

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.10, Anchor

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A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee--not playing soccer, not playing football--but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.

Judith Viorst

Soccer, Football, Fall

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

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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

Ellen Glasgow

Beauty, Labels, Mediocrity

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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?

Samuel Beckett

Love, Horse, Years

Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.36, Faber & Faber

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Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Sympathy, Philosophy, Responsibility

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.105, UPNE

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That was how I was going to get things back to normal-by working. I never thought I would use the words “working” and “normal” in the same sentence, but I'll try anything to avoid facing reality.

Gary Reilly

Reality, Trying, Use

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Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.

Frank Pittman

Growing Up, Kids, Skills

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It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.

Alice Miller

Summer, Running, Children

Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.16, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don't count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.

Nicholson Baker

Self, Personality, Rude

Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.153, Vintage

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To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry that hisactions are harmful at the moment or may be injurious to his future. It does not help me as a parent nor lessen my worries when my child drives carelessly, even dangerously, if I am told that this is "normal" behavior for children of his age. I'd much prefer him to deviate from the norm and be a cautious driver!

Bruno Bettelheim

Hurt, Children, Worry

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... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.

Timothy Gowers

Confused, Science, Typical

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I'M HOPEFUL, because I know that while we still have race issues in America, we enjoy a much different normal than those of our parents and grandparents. I see it in my personal relationships with teammates, friends and mentors. And it's a beautiful thing.

Benjamin Watson

Beautiful, Race, America

Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.16, NavPress

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If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.

Geraldine Chaplin

Typical, Steel, Nerves

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