#norm

Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law. ↗

— Zack de la Rocha

#apply #arizona #artists #between #commercial

Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#because #capital #more #new #normal

An Abel Muranda without his wife and children would be a wandering bachelor without any dignity. He would sleep in caves and feed on wild berries. But no matter how lonely life became, he would never come to a place like this ↗

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#flame-lily #great-zimbabwe #hangman #mystrey #parnormal

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#decorative #distortion #institutional #intense #intimate

My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.' ↗

— Nate Ruess

#all day #break #broadway #could #day

When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#close #coming #get #gotta #head

In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception. ↗

— Justin Sane

#business #celebrate #doing #exception #general

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#laugh #like #normally #people #see

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#because #carried #enormous #followers #his

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#back #different #down #i #immediate