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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.
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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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Nothing is perfect...We're really more interested in what we're saying than how we're saying it.
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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.
