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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It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
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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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I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth's ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.
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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.
