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“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

“Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.”

Giving Self Problem Names Process Levels Psychology Childhood Self Esteem Acceptance Giving Up Normal Seeking Esteem Lifts Approval True Self Components Kinship Perfectly Normal

Author:David Richo

“Yes. The original argument is defective. Substitute the word 'male' for 'gay,' and you'll see the flaw: 'Male people cannot be normal. If everyone were male starting tomorrow, the human race would die out, so being male cannot be nature's intended way.' Or you could substitute the word 'female.' In either case, the argument makes no sense: Being male or female is perfectly normal.”

People Ifs Way Humans Dies Race Cases Tomorrow Gay Normal Female Argument Originals Males Starting Human Race Flaws Substitutes Defective Perfectly Normal

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.”

Mother Father Novel Proud Normal Like Me Interviews Perplexed Proud Of Me Perfectly Normal

Author:Lisa Gardner

“My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.”

World Should Persons Made Character Mistake Audience Lovers Normal Ordinary Should Have Hollywood Sane Neurotic Ordinary Person Perfectly Normal Lead Characters

Author:Gene Wilder

“When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.”

People Ifs Different Whole Light Loses Wonder Circumstances Normal Doctors Perfectly Normal Different Meanings Approaching Death

Author:Joan Didion

“It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.”

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“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

“I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.”

Knows Would Be Interest Normal Curious Unusual Perfectly Normal

Author:George Harrison

“I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.”

Knows Home School Parent Normal High School Things To Do Riding God Knows Normal Things Perfectly Normal

Author:John Waters

“If you have a crippling fear of public speaking, recognize that that is perfectly normal. And know that the only way to get over those nerves is to fully understand the material, the points, the policy you are trying to explain - and then practice it a little bit.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Littles Bits Practice Policy Materials Normal Little Bit Nerves Get Over Public Speaking Perfectly Normal Fear Of Public Speaking

Author:Dana Perino

“Just driving I just was in a car on flat ground and I couldn't make it go. Having ticked driving and taken three driving lessons, I just was unable to produce any motion whatsoever under perfectly normal circumstances. I think we've all been busted on driving, and riding.”

Thinking Three Taken Car Produce Circumstances Lessons Normal Driving Flats Riding Busted Perfectly Normal

Author:Colin Firth

“It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.”

Fire Normal Ordinary Favors Department Socialist Perfectly Normal Fire Department

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.”

Five Feet Normal Height Tall Torment Perfectly Normal

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.”

Thinking Men Made Beautiful Form Differences Fire Fashion Holy Normal Shoes Revelations Mutual Wealthy Passages Engines Homage Lyrical Sterling Footwear Perfectly Normal

Author:William Gibson

“There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with Europe tagging along, moved to punish the Palestinian people, and punish them harshly, because they voted the wrong way in a free election. That's accepted here in the West as perfectly normal. That illustrates the deep hatred and contempt for democracy among western elites, so deep-seated they can't even perceive it when it's in front of their eyes. You punish people severely if they vote the wrong way in a free election.”

“If you ask me the image of Latin America, there are sorne countries which oppress their peoples much more, and among the less - least oppressive, among those with which we could have perfectly normal relations without any difficulties - we could have Uruguay, Chile, maybe Costa Rica. But the U.S.. do not permit us.”

Ifs Country America Asks Normal Difficulty Relation Ask Me Latin Permit Latin America Chile Perfectly Normal Costa Rica

Author:Che Guevara

“I think in Somali, I cuss in Somali, when I'm afraid I reach for somali and this language is very rich, very filling. It's an unflinching language; the crudest most terrible things sound perfectly normal in Somali.”

Thinking Language Sound Rich Terrible Normal Filling Terrible Things Perfectly Normal Somali

Author:Warsan Shire

“I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“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.”

“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”

Men World Said Feelings Bigs Universe Strange Normal Old Man Paranoia Sinister Perfectly Normal

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“New lesson, class. Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword. This change is perfectly normal, and will happen to you right now if you don't BACK OFF!" - Percy”

Ifs Happens Class Lessons Right Now Normal Monsters Celestial Percy Jackson And The Olympians Bronze Perfectly Normal

Book:Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth

“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”

Source: Everything But Money: A Life of Riches

“maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.”

People Men Wells Happens Remember Forget Normal Understood Sick Tired Things Happen Girlfriend Marie Forget Me Perfectly Normal

Author:Albert Camus

“Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.”

Normal Medical Phenomenon Exploding Perfectly Normal

Author:Graham Chapman

“It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.”

Men World Life Should Made Ideas Reason Done Feelings Care Young Evil Despair Normal Young Man Bombs Contemplating Lots Of Money Vicious Dropping Brutality Perfectly Normal Callousness

Author:John Fowles

“Tomorrow we go back to normal?" "Sure," Mab said. "It'll be like none of this happened. Except I'll still be pregnant, and you'll still be making dragons, and Glenda will still be pretending that Dreamland is Cancun, and Weaver will still own the only green velvet demon in captivity. Other than that, perfectly normal." "I just meant no demons trying to kill us," Cindy said. "My baseline for normal is a lot lower than yours.”

Trying Said Stills Happened Tomorrow Normal Green Demon Dragons Pretending Pregnant Velvet Captivity Weavers Cindy Perfectly Normal Dreamland Cancun

Author:Jennifer Crusie

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

Numbers Four Proud Normal Perfectly Normal

Book:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“I'm sorry, I don't know what any of you want, or why guns and knives are being waved around, or why the girl has just been taken hostage, but everyone seems to be acting like having a TALKING SKELETON in the room is perfectly normal. And you, where are your eyes? How can you see? How come the only people with eyes in this room are me and her?”

People Knows Want Seems Eye Girl Rooms Acting Talking Taken Normal Gun Sorry Knives I'm Sorry Skeletons Hostage Perfectly Normal

Author:Derek Landy

“If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.”

“I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.”

Thinking Seems Crazy Behavior Normal Logic Delusion Distortion Perfectly Normal

Book:Half a Life: A Memoir

Source: Half a Life: A Memoir

“An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.”

Looks Might Normal Surface Items Perfectly Normal

Book:Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

“I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it is true, but also a brain and also a soul. I've come to believe that we love with our brains as much as our hearts. Real Love is not just instinct, but intent...... From year to year, you may not always be the same Jane. This is perfectly normal. A Jane is many Janes in a lifetime.”

Thinking Years Believe Heart May Real Soul Wish Love Is Brain Advice Normal Instinct Lifetime Real Love Jane Follow Your Heart Perfectly Normal Bad Advice Always Follow Your Heart

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.”

Sleep Enemy Morning Taught Normal Divorce Taught Us Perfectly Normal

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press.”

Ifs Normal Exciting Presses Access Spheres Construction Plastic Inquisition Treadmills Molding Perfectly Normal Cylinders Spanish Inquisition

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.”

People Lasts Numbers Four Strange Proud Involved Normal Mysterious Nonsense Perfectly Normal

Book:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.”

Sometimes Home Girl Walks Behavior Normal Makeup Perfectly Normal

Author:Louise Rennison

“It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted Sophie and decided to accost her as well, Sophie shrank into a shop doorway and tried to hide. The young man looked at her in surprise. "It's all right, you little gray mouse," he said laughing rather pityingly. "I only want to buy you a drink. Don't look so scared.”

Men Want Wells Looks May Littles Said Young Laughing Drink Normal Decided Blue Surprise Scared Young Man Shops Silver Gray Mice Costumes Doorways Sophie May Day Perfectly Normal

Author:Diana Wynne Jones

“What does the gay movement mean when it says tolerance?...It means absolutely unconditionally accepting it as perfectly normal, healthy, natural and something that should be integrated into every part of society.”

Should Mean Doe Natural Accepting Movement Healthy Gay Normal Tolerance Integrated Perfectly Normal

Author:Scott Lively

“When this love, the heavenly gift of Nature, appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system and cools it down to a perfectly normal state; and invigorating the vital powers, expels all foreign matters- the germs of diseases-by natural ways (perspiration and so forth). It thereby makes man perfectly healthy in body and mind, And enables him to understand properly the guidance of Nature.”

Men Way Love Mind Heart Matter States Body Causes Natural Healthy Disease Normal Guidance Heavenly Remove Mind And Body Germs Nature Love Invigorating Perspiration Perfectly Normal

Author:Sri Yukteswar Giri

“Realizing that other people have a problem with [homosexuality] was the weirdest thing for me. As a kid it wasn't even something that was mentioned. It was never something that was even explained to me. It was just, "That's Mark and he's gay." Mark was just another friend of my dad's who would talk about his boyfriend instead of his girlfriend. I was 5. I didn't care. It seemed perfectly normal, and still does.”

People Doe Stills Problem Care Kids Realizing Dad Gay Normal Mark My Dad Girlfriend Homosexuality Gay Rights Perfectly Normal

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it came to rest. Idle men and idle plant were an aberration, a wholly temporary failing. Keynes showed that the modern economy could as well find its equilibrium with continuing, serious unemployment. Its perfectly normal tendency was to what economists have since come to call an underemployment equilibrium.”

Source: The Essential Galbraith

“American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For us, arguing, shouting is perfectly normal - for them it is inconceivable.”

Men Used Emotion Drama Normal Arguing Frightened Shouting Perfectly Normal

Author:Elisabetta Canalis

“It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question.”

People Knows Mind Dying Normal Approach Polite This Society Changing Your Mind Unbelievers Perfectly Normal

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normal—indeed, deeply human—to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a vision—a creature—of the purest sweetness?”

Thinking World Should Humans Suffering Vision Dog Produce Creatures Normal Moved Protest Sweetness Mourn Eccentric Obscene Human Suffering Perfectly Normal

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt), and it becomes apparent why perfectly normal people, upon entering public life, transform into cartoons - because they are not free to express what a normal person would feel in their situation.”

“Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.”

Thinking Two States Whole My Own Normal Whole Life Thirty Privacy Illegal Bedroom Perfectly Normal

Book:The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths

Source: The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths

“The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge. A half-grown panther abandoned in the wilderness will grow up to be a perfectly normal panther. But a half-grown child similarly abandoned will grow up into an unrecognizable savage, unfit for normal society. Yet there are those who insist the opposite: that we are creatures of instinct, like wolves.”

“You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.”

Use Funny Inspiring Money Stupid Normal Privacy Normalcy Wise Money Change Your Attitude Perfectly Normal

Author:Johnny Depp

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