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“I'd like to get into some sort of workout regimen so I can properly be healthy and exercise like a normal human being. I seem to not do that... ever.”

Humans I Can Seems Human Beings Exercise Healthy Normal Workout

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.”

People Ifs Seems Church Normal Testament New Testament Abnormal

Author:Vance Havner

“I had this idea when I was in the hospital, .. It seems like every year I always have different people come and ask for a Christmas song and it seemed strangely appropriate for me this year because Christmas is the time that I am supposed to be sort of back and up and running and whatnot. So I just wrote a song about returning from this very interesting journey and kind of getting back to normal and getting back to work and my regular life.”

“Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring.”

Years Seems Willing Cold Normal Late Spring Dry Wet Complaints

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.”

Knows Seems Common Normal Exotic Utah

Author:Brigham Young

“It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world. Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred.”

World Sometimes Seems Might Women Company This World Normal Enlightenment Embrace Radical Radical Change

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.”

World Way Trying Seems Reading Normal Silent Enlightening

Author:Jenny Hval

“When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.”

People Men Seems Jesus Common Speech Normal Claims Common Sense Locked Freedom Of Speech Outrageous Psychotic Locked Up Martians Madhouses

Author:Thomas Szasz

“I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments.”

Looks Made Seems Artist Normal Achievement Critics Obsessed Comment Ambitious Astonishing Pious Toss Wry

Book:Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

Source: Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

“My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.”

People Ifs Children Made Seems Mother Special Normal Made It Cheer Perfectly Normal

Author:Shirley Temple

“Speeding is like drugs. It makes everything come at you fast, and when you go back to normal driving, safe driving, prudent driving, it seems boring. That's the danger of drugs. At first it's intoxicating, but then the rest of your life you're trying to find that very first time. It never is the same.”

Trying Firsts Seems Danger Drug Safe Normal First Time Boring Driving Rest Of Your Life Prudent Speeding

Author:Tim Allen

“It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.”

Home Seems Actors Grows Growing Up Childhood Normal Faster Inevitable Interviews End Times Spend Time Cliche Away From Home Time Away

Author:Matt Dillon

“What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in the normal course of everyday life, the way this affects our feelings and the shape it takes in our memory; and it is to this that I have always applied myself.”

Way Whole Feelings Seems Courses Memories Interesting Objects Shapes Normal Complexes Everyday Impression Representation Everyday Life Our Memories Complex Systems

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“The Germans gathered together ethnic divisions from all over Europe in which men of the same linguistic and cultural background could serve together. The Georgian SS division conducted itself with distinction in normal military action, but a good many people seem to think that anybody who was ever a member of the SS was automatically a war criminal.”

People Thinking Men War Seems Action Together Military Members Normal Europe Criminals Backgrounds Distinction Good Man Division Military Action Georgians

Author:Jeff Cooper

“Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.”

Knows Seems Normal

Book:Shadows: A Novel

Source: Shadows: A Novel

“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

“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

“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.”

“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

“A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.”

Men Should May Two Ideas Helping Hands Seems School Form Education Normal Labor Salvation African American Occupation Farmers Educate Instruction Manly Carpenter Blacksmiths

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“I don't take so-called "vacations" often. In fact vacations are more stressful than the lives my wife and I worked hard to set up for ourselves in New York. It seems like being on vacation is like normal living, which is not very satisfying. It means we're figuring out what to make for lunch today, and that seems like such an absurd way to live. The issue of dealing with that doesn't seem to be so prominent back home. It sounds so silly and ridiculous, but it's really the way it is. We love what we do, so I prefer being in the studio; that's really living for me.”

“I was very curious, that's why I think my reality TV seems normal. I watch a lot of reality TV because I am so interested in people and observing people. From a very young age I can remember watching a woman with a guy and she's rolling her eyes and he's pleading with her and I would think, she doesn't want to be with him, he's in love with her, she likes this other guy and I would make up these stories in my head about these people. That helps me sort of profile people and that is a key to being able to read people.”

“There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.”

Men Play Facts Seems Turns Destiny Shapes Normal Madness Visible Muscles Peculiar Insects

Author:E. T. A. Hoffmann

“I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions of poetry have been getting far off from normal life, so that to have a prose bridge makes reading poetry seem more natural.”

People Thinking Giving Has Beens Seems Reading Natural Normal Bridges Prose Conventions Normal Life Reading Poetry

Book:The Complete Poems

Source: The Complete Poems

“One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of course having a sense of the contours of grief is, I think, truly useful, one has to remember it's not a science, it's an individual reckoning, which science is just trying to help us describe.”

Thinking Trying Kind Helping Seems Remember Certain Courses Individual Grief Risk Normal Research Difficulty Abnormal Reckoning

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.”

Seems Normal Monsters Norm Monstrous East Of Eden

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“To a normal person, $10 million will seem like enough. But anyone who thinks that's enough is not the type that can acquire that much in the first place.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Enough Seems Millions Type Normal Acquire

Author:James K. Glassman

“There are at least two distinct meanings of 'hot': there is the, like, normal human definition which is that 'this individual seems suitable for mating'. And then there's the weird, culturally constructed definition of 'hot' which means, 'that individual is malnourished and has probably had plastic bags inserted into her breasts'. Like, I think if you went back to the 18th century and asked a 15-year-old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?' that 15-year-old boy would probably be like ... 'What's plastic?'”

Ifs Thinking Years Humans Mean Two Seems Individual Boys Century Normal Hot Definitions Breasts Bags Plastic Suitable 18th Century Mating Plastic Bags

Author:John Green

“Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.”

Seems Life Is Creative Normal Creator Leap Normal Life

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.”

Thinking Seems Law Century Information Normal Dimensions Anticipation Glimpse Compounds Prophetic Causality

Author:Terence McKenna

“Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.”

People Seems Normal Average Traits Founders Distribution Inverse

Author:Peter Thiel

“Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.”

Should Seems Government Care Loses Principles Cases Normal Court Saved Interpretation Yield Usual Dissent Melting Affordable Affordable Care Act Court Justice

Book:Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents

Source: Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents

“So it seems that because of every syndrome and disorder we've invented in the past twenty years, the Los Angeles Times reported that 63% of American families are now considered dysfunctional. My God! That means we're the majority. We're normal! It's the people who have the mommy, the daddy, the brother, the sister, the little white picket fence - those people are the freaks, man!”

People Men Years Mean Littles Seems Past White Brother Normal Twenties Majority Los Angeles Disorder Freak Fence Daddy Syndromes American Family Picket Fences

Author:Christopher Titus

“Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?”

People Looks Children Seems Able Grows Accepting Growing Up Normal My Children

Author:Nancy Burson

“In underground music, there seems to be this real inability for people to express themselves in any kind of heroic or mythological way. There's this idea that we're all normal joes, and that creating a persona onstage or having schtick is somehow false and misleading and evil.”

People Way Kind Ideas Real Seems Evil Normal Creating Heroic Inability Persona Mislead Underground Music

Author:Ian Svenonius

“My whole life has been traveling, so it just seems normal to me, ... I'm able to leave on a bus with eight or nine guys, and I feel really comfortable with it. I've always done it. It's heaps of fun. They're all people I get along with really well. They're all my family, my best friends.”

People Feels Wells Has Beens Done Whole Seems Able Guy Fun Normal Comfortable My Family Eight Whole Life Nine Bus My Best Friend

Author:Kasey Chambers

“According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.”

People Ifs Persons Seems Five Four Normal Statistics Disturbed

Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

“I feel like as I've gotten older I've unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and boring maybe are normal and boring.”

People Feels Seems Decision Normal Boring

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“I want to draw subjects that seem very boring and everyday... Stuff that would be normal except for one thing. Or two things. Or stuff that's undeniably weird.”

Want Two Seems Would Be Stuff One Thing Subjects Normal Draws Everyday Boring Two Things

Author:Chelsea Martin

“What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."”

Ifs Seems Energy Childhood Becoming Normal Our Children Down And Strive Inevitable Anxious Hierarchy Becoming More

Author:Gloria Steinem

“In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think.”

Thinking Seems Guy Crazy Rocks Normal Phenomenon This Guy Indie Rock

Author:Tom Scharpling

“I went home and they seemed... my parents seemed normal. They didn't seem to feel like somehow they had been victims of some Nazi camp or something.”

Feels Home Seems Parent Normal Victim Camps Nazi

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.”

People Ifs World Mind Persons Two Different Hands Seems Eye Walks Brain Normal Projects Photography Cameras Everyday Photographer Visuals Thrown Clue Oblivious

Author:Bill Jay

“Playing normal is hard; especially playing normal that's not you. The biggest challenge in playing Alicia is trying to make a teenage girl seem fully formed and not the quintessential moody teenager with a quippy, sassy line here and there.”

Trying Hard Seems Girl Challenges Lines Normal Teenager Teenage Here And There Sassy Moody Teenage Girl Quintessential

Author:Alycia Debnam Carey

“Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.”

Needs Seems Risk Subjects Normal Standards Adults Performances Jazz Tennis Formal Surgery Athletic Improvisation Jazz Improvisation Athletic Performance

Author:Ernest Sosa

“What I remember from [the first meeting with Samuel L. Jackson] was that he was a friendly, animated kind of guy. His screen image is a hard boiled intimidating kind of character. That's what I remembered thinking, 'Boy, this guy seems like a normal guy.'”

Thinking Firsts Kind Hard Character Seems Remember Guy Boys Normal Meetings Screens Remembered Friendly This Guy Animated Intimidating Samuel L Jackson

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, oh, what was that like? That must have been hard. And you go: No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?”

People Has Beens Hard Seems Normal Grandparent Norm

Author:James McAvoy

“The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.”

Ifs Seems Magic Internet Protect Normal Critical Sentences Scrutiny Magic Words

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.”

People Mean Littles Persons Real Sometimes Play Seems Bits Black Television Normal Little Bit Real Life Teenager Being Real Nails Polish Mean People Edgy Nail Polish Brittany Edginess

Author:Brittany Snow

“We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.”

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