Norm MacDonald Quotes
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
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Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
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I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
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We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy, error undetected will flourish and subvert.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.
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The world has been made by fools that men should live in it.
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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her.
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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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I put my name on that Occupy Musicians list because someone wrote to me and said, "Would you do this?" I said, "Yeah sure, I support this." What artist wouldn't support that? What's the big deal? But then people wrote to me, "Wow! You're on that list!" And I'm like, "Who isn't on that list?" That would be more shocking.
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I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.
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I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you.
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We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".
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The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.
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There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
