Norm MacDonald Quotes
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
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I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.
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I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.
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Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.
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A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.
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An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.
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No alternative is open but to take military action.
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Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue
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Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.
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The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of its citizens are white. We are Americans because we practice democracy and believe in republican government, not because we practice revealed religion and believe in Bible-based government.
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If you're in the market for guidance, this is probably not a bad way to go. A lot of people will try to shame you into thinking you shouldn't be paying for help. But there's nothing shameful in doing it.
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.
