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.
Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
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