Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful."
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Salvador Dali
Artist, Surrealist
"I am not strange. I am just not normal."
Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal"
Chris Burke
Actor
"Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life."
Rita Mae Brown
Author, Activist
"Normal is the average of deviance."
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"The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy."
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"What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal."
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"The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities."
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"Its OK to be weird. And maybe your weird is my normal. Whos to say? I think its an attitude."
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"I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didnt deserve it."
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"I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living."
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"When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society."
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"Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it's kind of normal to do that."
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"Normal' is a dryer setting."
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"There’s a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal."
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"People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country."
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"The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time."
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"I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all"
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"It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about."
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"Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace."
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"I don't want to just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice."
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"Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull."
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"I want to be normal. I really want anonymity."
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"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."
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"I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else."
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