“I don't see anybody in any sort of squad that has a normal body. It's kind of this false image of what people should look like. And what they should be like, and it's not real.” PeopleShouldLooksKindRealBodyNormalSquad Author:Demi Lovato
“I am not a career woman, and I would never have become one in normal life, because I am not ambitious enough for that.” EnoughCareersNormalAmbitiousNormal LifeCareer Women Author:Margrethe II of Denmark
“When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.” KindHardBreakKnowingNormalBusyNot KnowingTouringNormal LifeKnowing What To Do Author:Petra Haden
“I thought very seriously having something more like a normal life where I might have my weekends and evenings off, and be able to read and have a more robust personal life.” MightAbleNormalEveningWeekendPersonal LifeNormal LifeRobust Author:Jason Kenney
“It was actually pretty cool to be in Pittsburgh for those four years. I moved into the dorms and had a pretty normal college experience, even though it was in my hometown. I really thrived there. I feel like it really suited me and served me well in terms of how I grew up there.” FeelsYearsWellsTermFourCollegeGrewNormalGrew UpMovedFour YearsHometownPittsburghDormsCollege Experience Author:Zachary Quinto
“I'm able to be a normal mom for the most part. I'm in [clothing store] Brandy Melville like all the other moms.” AbleMomNormalStoresClothingsBrandyMelville Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“The beatings, the beatings were so normal to me. The abuse was just routine. I didn't wake up the next day and say, 'Dre, why did you hit me?' We never talked about it the next day. Never.” NextNormalAbuseWake UpRoutineNext Day Author:Michel'le
“I'll have to look into [Washington] D.C. a bit more. I know it's given over to the administration and the bureaucracy connected to it. It's a super-organism of the American state. But there's also a parallel city in there where normal people live.” PeopleKnowsLooksStatesGivenBitsCitiesNormalConnectedAdministrationOrganismsBureaucracyParallels Author:Dylan Moran
“When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that.” PeopleThinkingSometimesWalkingNormalTownsBritishLondonNormUnkind Author:Ewan McGregor
“When you think about normal advertising, it's just like, hey, here's a car and, you know, we don't know if you're looking for a car or not. So Google promised that mental state, and then were able to prove that delivering the message at the exact right moment would make someone click on something. So they pioneered the idea that advertising could be profitable on the internet, that a specific, very micromental state could be targeted. And they established the primacy of the click, which has haunted us ever since.” IfsThinkingKnowsIdeasStatesMomentsAbleCarInternetProveNormalMessagesAdvertisingHeyGoogleProfitableClicksDeliveringRight MomentPrimacy Author:Tim Wu
“To me, the biggest lesson I`ve learned up till now with two weeks to go before the election, and the thing I have to keep, sort of, taking myself back to kind of parse, is just how powerful a personality can be when it is as not worried about norms or shame as a normal person.” KindPersonsTwoPowerfulWeekPersonalityLessonsNormalShameElectionWorriedI've LearnedNormTwo Weeks Author:Chris Hayes
“The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did.” DoeDoneDecisionSituationPolicyNormalInternationalPainfulOpeningVietnamEmbassySaigonHanoi Author:Indira Gandhi
“In the Western world, women have no other choice. In India, no. And I'll explain the reason. It's a reason that also has to do with my own case. In India women have never been a hostile competition with men - even in the most distant past, every time a woman emerged as a leader, perhaps as a queen, the people accepted her. As something normal and not exceptional.” PeopleMenWorldReasonPastChoicesMy OwnLeaderCasesNormalIndiaCompetitionWesternAcceptedQueensHostileExceptionalWestern World Author:Indira Gandhi
“My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.” MenFatherNormalSaintClosest Author:Indira Gandhi
“We were to equally strong types [with my husband], equally pigheaded - neither of us wanted to give in. And...I like to think those quarrels made us better, that they enlivened our life, because without them we would have had a normal life, yes, but banal and boring.” ThinkingGivingMadeWantedStrongOur LivesTypeHusbandNormalBoringMy HusbandQuarrelsNormal Life Author:Indira Gandhi
“It's not normal, what I do. Just being on television isn't.” TelevisionNormalJust Being Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it, that's - what kind of person thinks that? A monster of self-regard. It's not normal thinking.” PeopleThinkingWantKindPersonsSelfStoriesInterestingPayNormalRegardMonsters Author:Anthony Bourdain
“There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of person who can deal with being recognized by strangers and if that's tolerable or pleasing to you, and not immediately terrifying, that's not normal either.” IfsWritingKindPersonsBookDealsNormalStrangerAbout YourselfWriting A BookTolerable Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Companies are returning a lot of money to shareholders through dividends and buybacks. And a lot of people say that's not a good use of capital. I think that's normal reallocation of capital.” PeopleThinkingUseCompanyNormalLots Of MoneyDividendsShareholders Author:Jamie Dimon
“Donald Trump is not a normal presidential candidate.” TrumpNormalPresidentialCandidatesPresidential Candidate Author:Hillary Clinton
“I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.” IfsWantedReligiousBreakImagineTeachingTaughtNormalMy FamilyImpactExpected Author:Wendy C. Ortiz
“Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.” PeopleBelieveSituationDemandNormalVotingThreshold Author:Alan Kay
“When I have time, I write other things. I'm working on a book, I paint, I sculpt, I play with my dog, I watch television - I catch up on South Park or movies or whatever I've missed, normal stuff.” WritingBookPlayStuffWatchesDogTelevisionNormalSouthPaintParksMy Dog Author:Taylor Momsen
“I would say that's my normal thing, salad for lunch with chicken or some sort of protein and then pasta.” NormalChickensLunchSaladProteinPastaNormal Things Author:Devon Windsor
“You can feel the same thing in football or soccer - that for the best teams in Spain and England, for instance, the public... they're not really going to cheer at all when they play against bad teams unless they do something spectacular. Even if they're winning by a few goals they'll probably just say, "nah." That's normal and they're not excited about it.” IfsFeelsPlayWinningGoalTeamFootballNormalEnglandExcitedInstanceSoccerCheerSpainSpectacularBest Team Author:Magnus Carlsen
“There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.” PeopleIdeasRealizingNormalFedsNormal Life Author:Jason Diamond
“Who know what life is going to be like. I mean, there was no demand for the spaces before. It's not like people were flocking to Sochi before; they just didn't have enough hotel rooms and arenas to fill the need. So that's what we'll look at when we go there. But we'll wait a few years until things kind of return to normal.” PeopleKnowsNeedsYearsLooksKindMeanEnoughLife IsWaitingSpaceRoomsReturnDemandNormalHotelArenaHotel RoomsSochi Author:Gary Hustwit
“The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world.” WorldRealFilmNormalReal WorldImaginaryImaginary WorldInside And Outside Author:Lucile Hadzihalilovic
“You begin looking at things and they look just fine, as normal as ever, but then you look for a while longer and your feelings get involved and they begin changing things for you and they go on and on till you only see your feelings, and that's why you see this mess.” LooksFeelingsFineGoes OnInvolvedNormalMessGet Involved Author:Domenico Gnoli
“To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School].” CountrySchoolTenNormalMy SisterVermont Author:Malaak Shabazz
“Sometimes my fashion pictures can look a little bit like documentary style pictures. So having a camera in my hand was normal.” LooksLittlesSometimesHandsBitsFashionStyleNormalLittle BitCamerasDocumentaries Author:Steven Sebring
“Fighting and arguing amongst brothers are normal. Living together can also cause disagreements. I don't think it will work if there's none.” IfsThinkingTogetherFightingCausesBrotherNormalArguingDisagreementLiving Together Author:Seungri
“We lived in a suburb in Johannesburg, which is a massive city of about 8 million people, and my parents would drive me to school every day and over the weekend I would go to the mall and then occasionally on Safari. Pretty normal stuff, apart from the Safari.” PeopleSchoolStuffParentCitiesMillionsNormalMassiveWeekendSuburbsMallsSafariJohannesburg Author:St. Lucia
“We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It's cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It's not related to the crisis.” TwoDifferentCountryNormalCrisisIncludingRussiaRelatedDifferent ThingsAgreementIranCooperationOther CountriesArmamentTwo CountriesIncluding Others Author:Bashar al-Assad
“We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ; we would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can't be tolerated in Syria. I'm talking about the normal reaction of the people. If it's not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn't have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn't make national war.” PeopleIfsYearsTwoWarStatesWholeJobsHalfTalkingCasesSupportNormalArmyInstitutionsReactionsTwo YearsSyriaSectsDisintegration Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I don't want to give too much away, but something horrible happens in 1977. That was also the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. I remember this jubilee. I remember receiving a commemorative coin from the school. I think it was a fifty pence piece. That was its monetary value, but it was not a normal fifty pence piece, and it would have been strange to try and use it in a shop.” ThinkingWantGivingTryingYearsHas BeensUseHappensSchoolRememberValuesToo MuchPiecesStrangeNormalHorribleQueensFiftyShopsSilverReceivingCoinsMonetaryJubileeMonetary Value Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“Today it's normal. Photos used to be a support to the text, but we turned things around, reducing the words to a minimum.” TodayUsedSupportNormalUsed To BeMinimumReducing Author:Franca Sozzani
“We pretty much had crazy weather, historically speaking, in every location we filmed [The Fourth Phase]. Nothing has been normal in the past three years.” YearsHas BeensPastThreeCrazyNormalWeatherThree YearsFourthPhasesLocation Author:Travis Rice
“There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop filming.” DoubtExampleMonthsNormalSpringNo DoubtAlaska Author:Travis Rice
“Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.” WantLyingNormalPretendingNormal Life Author:Gaspar Noe
“I think British people for example can handle better their own poorness. The image of their poorness. But in France, people don't handle it very well. Either you are normal or ... if you are poor you better not show it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsShowsPoorExampleNormalBritishHandleFrance Author:Gaspar Noe
“Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.” WantShowsSocialSituationTeachSubjectsLessonsNormalFrance Author:Gaspar Noe
“Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life. For a rising number of people today, it is quite normal to "try and err", marry, divorce, marry again.” PeopleTryingTodayYoungNumbersSawsEventsNormalDivorceDeterminedRisingOnce Upon A Time Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way, as the 'normal state of affairs" - because they knew no other. We know how easy it is to shed, under such circumstances, the thin and frail veneer of civilization, not to mention the moral standards of which the Jews were presumed to be the world's teachers.” KnowsWorldWayCountryStatesHumanityEasyBornViewsMoralWorryKnow HowTeacherGenerationsCircumstancesCivilizationNormalStandardsAffairJewShedFrailYounger GenerationVeneer Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“The tragedy is what - given the 'right circumstances,' - normal decent folks, like you and me, will do. This is what makes me worry whenever looking on the road that Israel entered and shows no intention of leaving.” ShowsGivenWorryLike YouCircumstancesNormalTragedyIntentionLeavingFolksIsraelDecent Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“I know I'm not normal in this, but [ Severus ] Snape is absolutely my favorite character in the Harry Potter books. He is completely mortal - good, bad, strong, weak, motivated by hatred, motivated by love. A gorgeous, compelling, complex character who definitely earns a spot at my table.” KnowsBookCharacterStrongNormalWeakHatredTablesComplexesMy FavoriteSpotsMortalsMotivatedCompellingHarry PotterGorgeousPottersSnapeComplex CharactersFavorite Characters Author:Megan Chance