Gabriel Byrne

Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.

Irish Actor

Rosie O'Donnell

There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they're allowed to be a parent.

American Comedian

Robyn Hitchcock

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

English Musician

Alexander Karp

We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and, in my case, somewhat deviant people we'd like to be.

American Businessman

Maxine Peake

Toast of London' is a must-watch. Matt Berry's off-the-wall humour is slightly surreal and a little bit deviant. That's why I also love 'House of Fools.

English Actress

Niall Ferguson

I'm over-industrious, so I don't feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England.

British Historian

George Weinberg

I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.

American Psychologist

Joe Henderson

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.

American Athlete

Mary Daly

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

American Theologian

William S. Burroughs

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

American Writer

Often suggests something is morally wrong or socially unacceptable.

Negative Connotation

Commonly used to criticize someone for not following societal norms.

Used in Criticism

Can be neutral, describing unusual but not necessarily bad behaviors.

Neutral Contexts

What is 'deviant' varies across cultures and time periods.

Subjective Label

Focuses on someone's actions in relation to society's rules.

Societal Perspective

Often carries a judgmental tone, but can also evoke sympathy for nonconformity.

Possible Empathy

In statistics, it does not carry the negative connotation it does in social contexts.

Neutral in Math

Useful for identifying data that may indicate an error or a special case.

Spotting Irregularities

A deviant number can greatly affect the mean of a data set.

Influences Averages

 you really needed the most expensive care in the country, or in the world, well then we really would be talking about rationing who we're going to cut off from Medicare. That would be really our only choice. But when we look at the positive deviants --

How do we heal medicine?...

 or in the world well then we really would be talking about rationing who we're going to cut off a medicare that would be really our only choice but when we look at the positive deviants the ones who are getting the best results at the lowest

 so taking what the Quran says and taking it to its extreme. Bin Laden didn't do that. He read in the Quran, you need a tablespoon of sugar. And instead, he put a cup of cyanide. That's not an extremist. That's a deviant revisionist.

Deviant

Negative Connotation

Used in Criticism

Neutral Contexts

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