#norm

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#coarse #cultural #even #first #first time

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#norm #personal #something

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#both #deeply #differences #essential #huge

Whatever situation you are in, that is what is normal for you. ↗

— Jo Brand

#situation #whatever #you

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#effectively #enormity #finality #less #more

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces. ↗

— Earl Browder

#back #because #become #behind #capitalist

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#common #common sense #freedom #liberties #normal

I feel like I could dominate the origami field. I think I have enormous potential in that area. ↗

— Jon Cryer

#could #dominate #enormous #feel #field

I've got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me. ↗

— Emma Bunton

#drive #feel #got #i #i feel

If you get through the primary and you work very hard for three months and you're not successful, you go back to being normal. The only thing that changes your life forever is if you win. ↗

— Max Burns

#being #changes #forever #get #go