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• I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, 'You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that's a gift. That's rare.'

  Mark Ruffalo

  Heart, Thinking, Blessing

  "Mark Ruffalo After ‘Normal Heart’: 'If A Piano Dropped On Me Tomorrow, I Did OK'". Interview with Jeremy Gerard, deadline.com. August 10, 2014.

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• I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal.

  Simon Rich

  Onions, Strange, Hobbes

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• I think we need to lift our spirits and have high, lofty expectations for this great country of ours.The new normal of two percent [growth] that the left is saying you can't do anything about is so dangerous for our country.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Thinking, Two

  Jeb Bush at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• I do interview senior candidates at the home office or many of our hotel or restaurant General Manager candidates. My two favorite questions are "Tell me about a failure in your career, what you learned from it, and how you've leveraged this lesson" and "All of us are misperceived at one time or another. What's the most common way you're misperceived in the workplace and why?" Both of these questions require a certain amount of self-awareness and a willingness to not give pat, normal answers that we offer experience in interviews.

  Chip Conley

  Senior, Home, Self

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• In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeois should pay homage. This all sounds absurd. But for Russians it is completely normal.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Russia, Sound, Pay

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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• I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.

  Gwen Stefani

  Sweet, Parent, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

  Margaret Drabble

  Book, People, Monsters

  Interview with Lydia Perović, www.believermag.com.

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• To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Interest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I find it very difficult to do normal things without getting approached.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Difficult, Normal Things

  "Exclusive: Jesse Eisenberg Talks 30 MINUTES OR LESS, ZOMBIELAND 2, Woody Allen, THE SOCIAL NETWORK and More". Interview with Hunter Daniels, collider.com. August 12, 2011.

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• If you really take a step back and observe people who are considered super-normal and watch them a bit, you'll realize that they're actually completely out of their minds! Most people are really nuts, and that's fascinating.

  Johnny Depp

  Nuts, People, Mind

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• I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.

  Hans Zimmer

  Morning, Ideas, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.

  Adam Croasdell

  Home, Opportunity, Thinking

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• For one movie, I'm learning to play a violin, and I had never picked up a violin in my life. That's a big challenge. That's what I see as one of the advantages of this business. You get to do things you'd never do, in a normal lifestyle.

  Luke Evans

  Play, Challenges, Violin

  Source: collider.com

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• Women have to ask for higher paychecks. And not equal, I don't want equal - why do I have to have the same paycheck as a guy who has much less experience than me? I want more. And we have to stop feeling ashamed for asking for more, and we have to begin to feel a little more entitled to things, to normal things.

  Isabel Coixet

  Guy, Feelings, Asking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.

  George C. Marshall

  War, Political, United States

  The Marshall Plan, delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University

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• Political correctness is an intellectual sickness. It means lying when telling the truth is not expedient. It is a disgusting habit and yet it is so widespread and so common that it is considered to be normal.

  Ali Sina

  Lying, Mean, Political

  Source: myislam.dk

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• One thing is to have the protection of human rights for homosexuals and quite something else is this promotion of indecency. It would be immoral and unethical to deny the homosexuals their human rights. But it is also immoral to consider disorders as normal. None of these deviances are biological. They are acquired by fantasizing about them.

  Ali Sina

  Rights, Deviance, Would Be

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Make no mistake: Homosexuals' human right must be protected. It is bigoted to discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation or preferences just as it is to discriminate based on race or religion. Nonetheless there is no justification to promote this lifestyle and pretend that it is normal.

  Ali Sina

  Mistake, Race, People

  Source: myislam.dk

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• The thing about social media is that it is anonymous, so it can be much more vitriolic and extreme than normal media and yet it is there for everyone to see. It is kind of like electronic graffiti. The political process is accelerated and intense in a way that I don't believe it ever really has been before.

  Tony Abbott

  Believe, Media, Political

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

  George Harrison

  Perfectly Normal, Would Be, Unusual

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

  Andrew Skurka

  Pride, Identity, Needs

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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• I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.

  Amy Poehler

  Helping Others, Opportunity, Rights

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• I've never really had a real job. When I was young doing stand-up, I'd get 50 bucks a week here or 100 bucks a week there. You know, sometimes for headlining one of the rooms, or MC-ing, or something like that. So yeah, I've never had like a normal job.

  Seth Rogen

  Jobs, Real, Bucks

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• I don't take so-called "vacations" often. In fact vacations are more stressful than the lives my wife and I worked hard to set up for ourselves in New York. It seems like being on vacation is like normal living, which is not very satisfying. It means we're figuring out what to make for lunch today, and that seems like such an absurd way to live. The issue of dealing with that doesn't seem to be so prominent back home. It sounds so silly and ridiculous, but it's really the way it is. We love what we do, so I prefer being in the studio; that's really living for me.

  Ryan McGinness

  New York, Silly, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

  David Pogue

  California, Alcohol, Brain

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