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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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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[ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.
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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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It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.
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The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence
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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.
