Quotes About Norms

Typically, it takes young players years to adjust to life in the big leagues and to start performing up to their capabilities. Most of the blame for this rests on these ridiculous old baseball norms that say young players are to be seen and not heard.

In life, you see younger men and older women, and the majority of marriages don't have such a huge age gap as we're used to seeing in films.

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we are just going to live through a lot of these issues until we discover what social norms make sense.

I felt that needed to be addressed: the idea that anything a man tries to do properly or thoroughly is dismissed as either metrosexual or OCD. But why can't you be practical and artistic at the same time, which was considered perfectly normal in the Renaissance?

How can we choose to selectively follow what we find comfortable and attack anybody who tries to break free from the norms that we choose to set?

I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Our culture tends to denigrate things that are associated with women. It's OK for women to wear trousers, for example, but not OK for men to wear skirts.

Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

a lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.

Divorce is now normal (quoted in the Sun, 1992)

Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality, and gets away with it opens doors. It means the common man, the majority of the people, have accepted it.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

There's no socially acceptable middle age.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.

I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. In America, possibly because of whatever the American dream is, this happens over and over again. These eras repeat.

Drag has always been very political and challenging of societal norms and other aspects of life.

I am an actor so I have to do my work and going beyond societal norms.