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.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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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!'
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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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.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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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.
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I look above, and I knowI'll always be blessed with love.
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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.
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Baby if you give me just one more try
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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.
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I've met some great people that deal with me in the press. I've also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.
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I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.
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It's tricky to get people to go see a movie in theaters today. 'Blair Witch' is playing in D-Box Theaters with the shaking seats. Just think if they gave you a 360-degree headset. Everyone would want to go to the movie.
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I'm very lucky. I do voiceovers, 'Family Guy,' on and on, and quite frankly, I'm one of the luckiest actors in the world. I was able to create a character who became iconic.
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We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.
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It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.
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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.
