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.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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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 have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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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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This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
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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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It's really important that folks be able to speak out.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
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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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We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others.
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I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.
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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.
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Overly restrictive regulations not only stifle the private sector; they also ultimately hurt consumers.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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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.
