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Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent, they tell us who we are and who we should be.
Jean Kilbourne
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The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY.
Erving Goffman
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Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
Charles Addams
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Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.
Jeffrey Veen
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I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.
Drew Carey
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I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
Dirk Benedict
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The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.
Benton MacKaye
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I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.
Tina Fey
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I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.
Parker Posey
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I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.
Katherine Dunn
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Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
Richard Matheson
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Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.
Michael Shurtleff
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In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
Lynn Nottage
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I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.
Suzanne Collins
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Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.
Ann Northrop
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He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.
Cassandra Clare
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Life goes on with fragile normalcy.
Sara Gruen
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Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.
Melissa Marr
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So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.
Gayle Forman
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…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.
Jasper Fforde
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I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of normalcy that he shouldn't be confirmed.
David Brooks
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There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.
Amber Benson
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As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.
Sonia Johnson
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I was in a very dark place for a long time. It's just so hard to have normalcy.
Kelly Clarkson
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I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.
Taylor Swift
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Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.
James Patterson
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
Gary Coleman