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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.”

Source: Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.

“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.”

Ifs Whole Film Quiet Normal Rhythm Get Back Nerves Typical Steel Normal Life Quiet Life

Author:Geraldine Chaplin

“I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles - that's when I felt good, normal, balanced.”

Heart Energy Felt Impossible My Heart Normal Percent Tasks Intense Muscles Balanced Acid Sizzling Lactic Acid

Book:The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

Source: The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

“If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.”

Ifs Use Would Be President Position Politician Normal Claims Method Prepared Western China Billions Chinese

Author:Li Peng

“I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes.”

Home Dream Normal Staying Dishes Washing Normal Things Washing Dishes

Author:Shalom Harlow

“I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.”

Persons Earth Produce Painting Normal Draws Fingers Down To Earth

Author:Marion Bartoli

“Maybe something is wrong with me but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.”

People Thinking Care Normal Fats Skinny

Author:Marion Bartoli

“From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility. From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful. From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise. And sometimes, from their envy of each other's special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.”

“The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.”

Way Interesting Company Normal Presses Social Media Cycles Pedestal

Author:Biz Stone

“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”

“Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word I like to use, rather than monstrous - as the sympathetic characters in the painting. It's interesting because some people will get it right away, but a common reaction is to be a little off-put by it. And that is the whole idea. If it grabs somebody in a negative way, that's my intention.”

People Ifs Way Littles Ideas Sometimes Whole Character Use Interesting Common Painting Normal Negative Intention Monsters Reactions Sympathetic Monstrous

Author:Chris Mars

“In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about American movies, they go and see the thrillers, and Westerns, and science fiction, huge entertaining movies.”

People Dream Fiction Huge Normal Science Fiction Sticks France Realistic Entertaining Thrillers Normal Life American Movie

Author:Berenice Bejo

“I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy.”

People Ifs Feels Seems Crazy Grew Normal Grew Up Behave Outsiders Weirdo

Author:Young Jean Lee

“Script is not finished until it's finished. There's many times, partway through a film, when an idea comes, and I say, "How beautiful this is. This thing was not complete and look what's happened, look what's come along." And it just came along at what might be called a strange time rather than a normal time.”

Looks Ideas Might Beautiful Film Happened Strange Normal Scripts Finished Strange Times

Author:David Lynch

“I admire anyone who isn't afraid to take risks and try out things that aren't usually looked at as "normal."”

Trying Risk Normal Admire

Author:Stella Hudgens

“By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.”

Enough Seems Kids Certain Turns Social Acting Skills Normal Autistic Social Skills

Author:Temple Grandin

“I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.”

Thinking Humans Doe Made Brain Emotional Normal Autism Variation Abnormal

Author:Temple Grandin

“I live a very privileged life, obviously. I'm an accomplished actor, I have a very solid normal family, tons of siblings, and a mother that loves me.”

Mother Actors Normal Accomplished Privileged Sibling Normal Family Privileged Life

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.”

Loses Economy Effects Internet Normal Consequence Bases Mediums Rely Broads Protected Normal Life Monitoring

Author:Edward Snowden

“No, I like normal life but I will go crazy if I'm not working. I'll say to my mom, "I'm going crazy! I'm going stir crazy!" I love my house. I love my family. I love my animals. Sometimes, I just want to work whether its on location here in Michigan or back in LA. I just want to work, work, work. It's what I want to do with the rest of my life so, yes, I do go a little bit crazy when I'm not working.”

Ifs Want Littles Sometimes House Bits Animal Crazy Mom Normal Little Bit My Family My Mom Working It Location Normal Life Michigan Going Crazy Love My Family I Love My Family Stir Crazy

Author:Joey King

“When you do a normal film, you play the character for three months and you say goodbye to him. And then, when you watch the movie, you say, "I wish I could have done that differently. I wish I could have added this to it."”

Done Play Character Film Three Wish Watches Months Normal Goodbye Saying Goodbye Three Months

Author:Taylor Lautner

“There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.”

Ifs Humans Dies Human Beings Possibility Normal Being There

Author:Robert Pattinson

“In my normal time, I like bacon sarnies, I smoke and I drink coffee. I do look after myself, but sometimes I allow myself to just let go a bit.”

Looks Sometimes Bits Drink Letting Go Normal Coffee Smoke Just Let Go

Author:Tom Weston-Jones

“Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times...even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.”

People Want Needs Giving Children Energy Parent Born Ability Emotional Demand Normal Spring Brilliant All Time Miserable Right Thing Vary Reserved Loner Emotional Energy

Author:Stella Chess

“Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.”

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.”

“I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.”

People Ideas Particular Son Normal Mysterious My Son Grandchildren My Grandchildren

Author:Omar Sharif

“I just desperately wanted to be happy again in a way that wasn't forced. I wanted to feel like I accomplished something. I did this. I finished this record. I'm doing all the promo. I'm doing everything that I said I was going to do. I really wanted to be happy and normalized and I was tired of people saying I was volatile. I'm not. I'm a pretty normal person. I have problems like anyone else but I've worked so hard to be OK and I don't think that I gave myself enough credit for that.”

People Thinking Way Feels Persons Said Hard Enough Problem Wanted Records Normal Tired Credit Finished Accomplished Happy Again

Author:Michael Angelakos

“But what I want most of all is a normal life.”

Want Normal Normal Life

Author:Mary Bell

“Our top story, in 'Threat Matrix Reloaded' news ... Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Muller held a press conference today to announce that Al Qaeda is planning attacks somewhere inside the United States at sometime in the future. So go about your normal lives, but with a vague sense of foreboding.”

States Stories Today United United States Directors Normal News Presses Threat Planning Als Vague Conferences Fbi Attorney Al Qaeda Normal Life Press Conferences Foreboding

Author:Craig Kilborn

“The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.”

Body White Levels Stage Higher Normal Thirds Reactions Instance

Book:Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]

Source: Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]

“[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.”

Eye Used Jesus Christ Mines Normal Jesus Christ Blue Brown Blue Eyes

Author:NoViolet Bulawayo

“Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Long Has Beens Speak Crazy Buddhism Normal Tradition Scientist West Western Loud Conception Sanity Incessantly Perfectly Normal

Author:Sam Harris

“You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations.”

Humans Long Spirit Human Beings Situation Laughing Cry Normal Adversity Angry Worried Loud Remembered

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The normal economic system works itself.”

Economic Normal Economic Systems

Author:James Salter

“Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.”

People Used Term Normal Fixed Statistics Subjective Susceptible

Author:Adam Levine

“The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.”

People Thinking Seems Levels Achieve Ignorance Comfort Horror Normal Lows Average Mediocre Sinking Abnormal Proximity Low Level Abnormality

Book:the Human Mind

Source: the Human Mind

“You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.”

People Ifs Should Normal Approach Mullahs

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.”

Way Mind May Art Body Hands Care Culture Causes Forget Existence Worry Habit Normal Conscious Entertainment Daily Life Nerves Routine Popular Culture Body Art

Book:The Politics of the Unpolitical

Source: The Politics of the Unpolitical

“Caring what others think about us is normal. The desire to belong is basic to human nature. But in order to feel like you truly belong, you must accept yourself for who you are. This is critical to Fearless Living.”

Thinking Feels Humans Desire Order Accepting Human Nature Like You Normal Who You Are Caring Critical Fearless Accepting Yourself

Book:Fearless Living

Source: Fearless Living

“It’s fun to be in a place where ridiculous is normal.”

Fun Normal Ridiculous

Author:Eddie Kaye Thomas

“Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.”

Looks Mother Realizing Normal Exhausted

Author:Mary Blakely

“The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal.”

Ifs Matter Would Be Common Return Normal Investing Expected Fats Investors Relative Passive Distribution Outliers

Author:Eugene Fama

“... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.”

Important Policy Normal Capitalism Capacity Investing Monetary Monetary Policy Fiscal Policy American Capitalism

Author:Warren Buffett

“The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom. If you merely try to bring just a little extra knowledge and cleverness to bear upon your investment program, instead of realizing a little better than normal results, you may well find that you have done worse.”

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.”

Knows World Rooms Normal Patterns Convinced Improvement Idealism Introspection Room For Improvement

Book:The Red Smith reader

Source: The Red Smith reader

“Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.”

Knows Years Firsts May Moments Next Energy Normal Lays Eggs Masculine Oysters

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.”

Humanity Speech Normal Mark

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.”

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.”

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