Normal Quotes - Page 5

• What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

  Charlie Sheen

  Jobs, Dad, Class

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

  Mike Tyson

  Love, Sports, People

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• I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Feelings, Wish

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• To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

  William James

  Philosophical, Understanding, Abnormal

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• I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.

  Courtney Love

  Sex, Sick, Vision

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• Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.

  Dorothy Parker

  Heterosexuality Is, Diversity, Social Justice

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• I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

  Bill Paxton

  Age, Demented, Backgrounds

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• Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

  Michael Phelps

  Fitness, Home, Swimming

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• Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

  Angie Everhart

  Thinking, Way, Natural

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• Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, People, Enough

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Romantic Love, Cinema, Classic

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

  Forever, Enemy, Friendly

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• Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• Its kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

  Karen Carpenter

  Nice, People, Trying

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• But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Believe, Hands, Choices

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

  James MacArthur

  Mother, Upbringing

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• I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

  Linda Hamilton

  Children, Believe, Parent

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• Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Successful, Doe, Facts

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, University of Chicago Press

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• It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.

  Mila Kunis

  Teenager, Screw Ups, World

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• Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

  Dom DeLuise

  Ambition, Boys, Thinking

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• I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Girl, People, League

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• It is normal to be nervous.

  James Galway

  Nervous

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• In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.

  George Orwell

  Country, War, America

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  Tina Yothers

  School, Kids, Lunch

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• Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Encouraging, Witty, Eye

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