Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!
Interpretation
A plea for individuality and a rejection of conformity.
This quote expresses a deep desire to embrace uniqueness and authenticity rather than simply conforming to societal norms. It reflects the speaker's wish to be extraordinary and authentic, resisting the pressure to fit into what is considered 'normal' by society's standards.
In practice
In a speech about embracing diversity, one could use this quote to inspire others to be true to themselves.
I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.
Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.
When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.
Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.
I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.
Once I put that wig on, I didn't say an intelligent thing for four months. My voice went up. I walked differently. I'd ask incredibly stupid questions.
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be in physical science is only an idealized world, while the real universe is the spiritual universe in which spiritual values count for everything.
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.
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