Georges Canguilhem Quotes

An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.

Georges Canguilhem

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• In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sports
  • Draw
  • Personalities

• Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

  

  O. Henry
  • King
  • Rights
  • New Deal

• I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Knew
  • Having
  • Normalcy

• I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Government
  • Wood
  • Sheep

• Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Mind
  • She
  • Girl

• Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Great
  • Want
  • Small

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Live
  • Never
  • Head

• I try to pride myself on being involved with the fans and taking pictures when they're asked for because I know I was that little kid one day that really looked up to stars like myself, and I try to give them that on my behalf.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Day
  • Myself

• What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • True

• There's not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it's baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes... If you're tight, you're not necessarily better.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Golf

• Nevada is a little different than most states. We only meet every other year in the legislature. So it's very important to have good relationships on both sides of the aisle... I have to have those relationships.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Good
  • Different
  • Important

• 'Marley Dias Gets It Done - And So Can You' is a book about how girls who are 10 and up - and everyone who is 10 and up, basically - can use their gifts and talents to help the world in a way that's unique to them.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Up
  • World
  • Done

• If a comedian has a strong following, and the branded segment feels different compared to what you typically do, people will know right away that it's not authentic to who you are as a comedian or performer. Brands need to keep that in mind.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • People
  • Different
  • Mind

• It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

  

  Ann Romney
  • Life
  • May
  • Perfect

• When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

  

  Claron McFadden
  • Character
  • Powerful
  • Personality

• 'Sports Illustrated' decided to have curvy women not only in their magazine but on the cover of their magazine. Now, that means size diversity is here, and it's real, and it's not a trend.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Women
  • Real
  • Sports

• Collaboration is everything from getting along with others to controlling your impulses so you can get along and not kick someone else off the swing. It's building a community and experiencing diversity and culture. Everything we do, in the classroom or at home, has to be built on that foundation.

  

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
  • Community
  • Diversity
  • Foundation

• You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from "A Time To Love" are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make...The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do...It is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Greater
  • Chains
  • Sisterhood

• An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.

  

  Georges Canguilhem
  • Diversity
  • Sickness
  • Anomaly