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

• Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Art
  • Joke
  • Salt

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

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Scared
  • Joke

• There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Joke
  • Reserve

• We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Real
  • Together

• 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

• Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about.

  

  Alexander Ovechkin
  • Perfect
  • Talking
  • Joke

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Family
  • Happy

• 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