Quotes with normal

  • As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
  • I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.
  • No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness.
  • My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
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  • George F. Will As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Joel Rosenberg I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
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  • Aldous Huxley The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alfred Adler The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • George H. Mead A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
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  • Diane Ackerman A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
    Diane Ackerman
    American poet, essayist, savage and naturalist (1948 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
    On War (1832) Ch. 7, as translated by Michael Howard and Peter P
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Augusten Burroughs As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Britney Spears As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this normal? Is this a phase? Or what is this?' and then you feel silly for asking questions because you think, 'I'm a mom - I'm supposed to know these things,' but you don't.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bob Geldof But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Albert Speer Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Barrett Foa Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
    Barrett Foa
    American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor (1977 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sigmund Freud Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Norman O. Brown Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Anne Grant Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Oscar Wilde How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.
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  • Assata Shakur I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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