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I’ve always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.

I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician only. I'm a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.

I’ve often been told that I’m a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself. I feel like I’m extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that’s a bit out of proportion. I guess that’s why some people see me as strange.

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.

I wake up: I am mental, I got to bed and I am mental, I am mental within my dreams, I am mental within my normal state, I'm out of my mind.

I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.

I want to live in a world where 'normal' is an insult.

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

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?

I was a normal American nerd.

I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a solid object, which is I think a normal fear to have because nobody would really want to do that. Once I got over the fear of running into the table I just kind of relaxed and now it's like autopilot. I love it.

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.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.

I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

I would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever, and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just some jelly in there.

I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.

I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.

I would say that's my normal thing, salad for lunch with chicken or some sort of protein and then pasta.

Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?

(J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

Kate had never been married, so she had no way of knowing if I was a normal husband. This has been good for our marriage.

Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.

Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.

Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.

Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.

Meat consumption shouldn't be normal.

Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable, and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks-drinks which they see others taking with impunity.

Metro shows no signs of being able to make its trains run on time. This occurs during single-tracking and it occurs during normal rush hour service.

Most of the awesome people I know are just normal people who were insanely driven.

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.