“I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good to feel normal for once, and then the next day, I was in the gym again.” FeelsHardNextFeltBreakNormalGymNext DayPromWorking So Hard Author:Aly Raisman
“The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.” SelfDesireValuesNextBeliefLossMoralBreakCasesDiseaseNormalStandardsHollywoodImportanceExtremesCaliforniaCurseProportionSense Of HumorSymptomsAbandonmentOld FriendsArrivalsExaggeratedBreak OutMoral ValuesSelf-importanceSelf CenterednessCenteredness Author:Elinor Glyn
“Everyone wants to turn on their TV and have a break from their normal day.” WantTurnsBreakTvsNormalTurn-on Author:Megyn Price
“Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.” PeopleThinkingMenWhiteBreakNormalRacismSexismStereotypeWhite ManHomophobiaClassism Author:Kathleen Hanna
“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.” PeopleKnowsWantJobsStuffDifficultBreakNormalBreak OutSyndromes Author:Paul Simonon
“The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often grows out of those areas. The critical examination of whiteness, academic and not, simply involves the effort to break through the illusion that whiteness is natural, biological, normal, and not crying out for explanation.” GrowsNaturalEffortClassTeachBreakStudyCryNormalIllusionAreasCriticalAfrican AmericanExplanationAcademicWorking ClassExaminationBreak ThroughWhiteness Author:David Roediger
“So a Holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes that the end is not only near but nearer than the next American presidential election. (Pity the Democrats. They cannot catch a break.) This kind of man would have, to put it gently, less inhibition about starting Armageddon than a normal person.” MenBelieveKindPersonsEndsNextBreakNormalWeaponsElectionDemocratStartingPityPresidentialHolocaustApocalypseVergePresidential ElectionInhibitionsAmerican PresidentArmageddonAnti Semitic Author:Charles Krauthammer
“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 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
“There's the instability of my attitude as an artist, the instability of our perception of the world, and the idea that with this mix, you never know exactly what's the point of view of the filmmaker. This breaks the stability of the belief that a filmmaker is somebody who has a logical relationship with his own material. These elements create this atmosphere that I find more interesting than a normal atmosphere, based only on the characters.” KnowsWorldIdeasCharacterArtistBeliefInterestingViewsAttitudeBreakMaterialsElementsNormalPerceptionPoint Of ViewAtmosphereFilmmakerLogicalStabilityMy AttitudeInstabilityPerception Of The World Author:Albert Serra
“I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsGivingLongI CanBodyBreakNormalWeakGive MeSignalsMedicationNormal Life Author:Toni Braxton