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There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.
Fernando Pessoa
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Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.
Peter Drucker
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Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.
Kathryn Bigelow
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The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.
Thorstein Veblen
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...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.
Muhammad Asad
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When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
Stanley Crouch
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In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.
Frank Zappa
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That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.
Alice Cooper
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Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.
C. S. Lewis
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I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.
Tyne Daly
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Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms.
Amber Valletta
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Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.
Marlee Matlin
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Complex things oftentimes disrupt social norms.
Simon Tam
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Anyone who is different or is slightly out of the norm, is considered crazy.
Eric Cantona
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I was radicalised by being a minister. That's when I saw how the system really worked. And that is not a very usual process, but it certainly happened to me: it gave me a lot more experience, it helped me to understand where power really lay, develop strategies for undermining or changing it, and so on. But that isn't the norm. Mr Gladstone moved to the left as he got older, and one or two other people have, but normally you swing the other way.
Tony Benn
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To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
Garrison Keillor
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Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
Charles Bukowski
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Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.
Dmitry Medvedev
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People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.
Jack Welch
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If regional associations are created, they should work on the basis of WTO norms, on the WTO basis.
Vladimir Putin
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Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God.
Bill Johnson
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Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.
Octavia Spencer
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
John Ortberg
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There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved
Pope Pius XII
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There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
C. S. Lewis
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I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.
Christina Aguilera
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We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not.
Judith Butler
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Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.
C. S. Lewis
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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
Robert M. Pirsig
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It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
Judith Butler
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I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.
David Bezmozgis
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If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.
Torbjorn Tannsjo
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I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way.
Nicole Kidman
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What we consider to be different depends on what we consider to be the norm.
Youngme Moon
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If you pitch your movie to someone and they say, "Oh, please, don't make that. No one would see it." Do it! Because that means you may have something that's not the norm.
Matthew Bonifacio
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The question of international norms or international resolutions, you know, coming from Mr. Obama is not really about whether there are international norms or resolutions to uphold.
Vijay Prashad
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Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.
Barack Obama
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For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
Roger Mudd
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Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.
Bill Hayden
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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
Renee Fleming
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Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.
Don King