Norm MacDonald Quotes
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
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I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
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If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.
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I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Golden Girls.' I have watched them over and over again for years.
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I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
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The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
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I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.
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I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.
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I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that's because I don't, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.
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Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.
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A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.
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Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.
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There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue the image because they can't do anything else. They don't even read. Their real identity is in making those pictures. They have to keep jumping on horses and hitting somebody on the head with a gun.
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Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.
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He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
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I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.
