#normal

When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#hitting #just #like #me #myself

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #behave #extraordinary #four

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire. ↗

— Barack Obama

#businesses #danger #go #high #hire

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#assert #differences #different #fundamental #fundamental rights

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#adult #ambulance #another #argue #assistance

What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person. ↗

— Christopher Parker

#bus #course #day #give #give me

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#assignments #before #bureau #europe #even

I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age! ↗

— Bill Paxton

#background #completely #demented #early #early age

The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe. ↗

— John Prescott

#britain #choice #europe #might #normally

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