Norm MacDonald Quotes

I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.

Norm MacDonald

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• The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Mankind
  • Joke

• My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Funny

• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Joke

• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Achievement
  • Gift
  • Strive

• I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and things you haven't seen anywhere else. Also to help you see old things in ways you haven't seen them before.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Help
  • Opportunities
  • Strive

• We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Actor
  • Entertainment
  • Joke

• Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Perfect
  • Excellence
  • Strive

• Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • War
  • Strive
  • Away

• Only the insecure strive for security.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Security
  • Strive
  • Insecure

• My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Scared
  • Joke

• We are a very united group. We like to have fun, we like to joke around.

  

  Sam Brown
  • Fun
  • Group
  • Joke

• In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Direction
  • Strive
  • Horizon

• Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Trying
  • Moon
  • Joke

• Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Kind

• The thing that all of us should strive for is to so live, keeping the commandments of the Lord, that He can answer our prayers. If we will live worthy, then the Lord will guide us - by a personal appearance, or by His actual voice, or by His voice coming into our mind, or by impressions upon our heart and our soul. And oh, how grateful we ought to be if the Lord sends us a dream in which is revealed to us the beauties of the eternity or a warning and direction for our special comfort. Yes, if we so live, the Lord will guide us for our salvation and for our benefit.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Heart

• It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Death
  • Sick
  • Clever

• I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Things
  • Ugly

• You’re the strength that I hold on to. And I hope I’m the strength that you hold on to, so we can strive together and be perfect. ‘Til death do us part.

  

  Boyz II Men
  • Strive
  • I Hope
  • Hold On

• There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Game
  • Know
  • Play

• Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Air
  • Genius
  • Plant

• All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Journey
  • Comfortable
  • Source

• That's really all I want, to be able to change the world with my voice.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • World
  • Change
  • Really

• I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Strive
  • Joke
  • Cleverness