Norm MacDonald Quotes

I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.

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• I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Amount
  • Scholar
  • Nihilism

• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Watching
  • Bull

• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Decision
  • Face
  • Consequences

• I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Problem

• Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Space

• I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • School
  • High
  • Like

• Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• It's really important that folks be able to speak out.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Speak
  • Out

• I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Perfect
  • Being
  • Very

• As China is the one nation with the size, population, ideology and power to contest the United States for hegemony in Asia, is war inevitable? Answer: No more inevitable than was war between Germany and Great Britain in 1914.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • Power
  • War

• I look above, and I knowI'll always be blessed with love.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Blessed

• There are no innocent people in the Gaza Strip. Everyone has a connection to Hamas. Everyone receives a salary from Hamas. Those who are trying to challenge us at the border and breach it belong to Hamas’s military wing.

  

  Avigdor Lieberman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Challenge

• Baby if you give me just one more try

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Baby

• I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Life

• I've met some great people that deal with me in the press. I've also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Great

• I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey.' ... Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • American
  • English
  • Inspiration

• I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Life
  • Idea

• Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who are from New Zealand, living in Portland.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Unknown

• The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.

  

  Betty Sue Flowers
  • Communities
  • Emerging
  • Manifests

• I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.

  

  Norm MacDonald
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