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• I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

  Andrew Solomon

  Differences, People, Comforting

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• You take a normal guy, give him a wife, give them time, and you've got AN IDIOT!

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, Giving

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• I'm not a racist. It's really case by case; it's not ethnicity specific. It's just the way I react to things that are different. I think that's normal. Everyone's nervous when they're confronted with things that they don't understand or are different. That's a normal human reaction. It doesn't become racist 'til you say things like, 'Oh, there's a lot of them.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and deploy them. That's the normal way of thinking of the military, in America not only but also all over the place, but America or Russia or other countries.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Country, Military, Thinking

  WGBH-TV Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.

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• Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.

  Dave Hickey

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I had been meaning to knock it down to negative 1000.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Self Esteem, Humor

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• 'Normal Life' looks at the current moment in trans politics, understanding that it is often assumed that trans resistance strategies should mimic the lesbian and gay legal rights frameworks that have become so visible in recent decades.

  Dean Spade

  Gay, Rights, Understanding

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.

  Paul Simonon

  Jobs, People, Break Out

  Source: rocknycliveandrecorded.com

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• One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.

  Mario Bunge

  And Love, Taste, Birth

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Distance, Goal, Wakes You

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about the pitfalls trans resistance faces, in particular the temptation to focus on legal equality and the limitations of that approach, and the alternative approaches being taken by racial and economic justice focused trans activists.

  Dean Spade

  Taken, Thinking, Justice

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who are not primarily engaging as theorists or theory-readers. Being able to make ideas visual, especially critical ideas about movements that can be difficult to hear because of attachments we have to certain national narratives, or because of ways that we see ourselves, is especially useful.

  Dean Spade

  Attachment, Talking, Ideas

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I was very curious, that's why I think my reality TV seems normal. I watch a lot of reality TV because I am so interested in people and observing people. From a very young age I can remember watching a woman with a guy and she's rolling her eyes and he's pleading with her and I would think, she doesn't want to be with him, he's in love with her, she likes this other guy and I would make up these stories in my head about these people. That helps me sort of profile people and that is a key to being able to read people.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Eye, Reality, Thinking

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• I'm just as normal as anybody else. I'm just probably in the same place as many people in their mid to late twenties are.

  Tristan Prettyman

  People, Twenties, Late

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Real, Mean, Different

  Source: www.chud.com

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• I was raised in a household where being gay was like, the most normal thing. My brother is gay, all of my best friends are gay. When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn't a big deal for my family.

  Ariana Grande

  Brother, Gay, My Best Friend

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• Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind.

  Tim Lambesis

  Song, Home, Writing

  Source: www.rocksins.com

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• A normal day in my life - well right now it's kinda just like hang out and be lazy .I'm just kinda like enjoying my break, basic, what everybody does. Hang out in my pajamas and eat cereal and watch cartoons.

  Drake Bell

  Cereal, Lazy, Cartoon

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• There's news that happens in different spheres and can be made just as funny, but it's not necessarily in the normal news medium.

  Trevor Noah

  Different, News, Spheres

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The only time I had a normal boyfriend was during the time of AIDS, so maybe that saved me. It's certainly not karma.

  John Waters

  Karma, Aids, Saved

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Real, Differences, People

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• When German companies take over firms in India, it is seen as normal. When an Indian buys one or two firms in Germany, that is something special.

  Tulsi Tanti

  Two, Special, India

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his own pleasure, even if it harms others; the natural man, who wants to please both himself and others; and the spiritual man, who wants to please only God, even if it harms himself. The first is lower than human nature, the second is normal, the third is above nature; it is life in Christ.

  Tito Colliander

  Spiritual, Men, Three

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• I can't think of any bank robbery comedy where it's about two normal guys. It's kind of like Superbad meets Heat, which is a cool combo, and it's just fun doing a normal guy that's robbing a bank.

  Aziz Ansari

  Fun, Thinking, Two

  "Aziz Ansari and Dilshad Vadsaria On Set Interview 30 Minutes or Less". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 10, 2011.

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• I live the most boring life, away from what you see me on camera doing. The other 300 days out of the year [not touring], I'm just the most normal person in the universe. I'm a wife. I'm a mother to my doggies. I'm a maid, and I clean the house. I'm pretty boring.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mother, Years, Wife

  Source: collider.com

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