Norm MacDonald Quotes

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

Norm MacDonald

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• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• If you want to change things, it requires bravery.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Want
  • Change
  • Bravery

• I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Live
  • Running

• You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Life
  • Run
  • Wait

• What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Important
  • Book
  • English

• The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn't call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Family

• I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Go

• I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • People
  • Speak
  • Mystery

• My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Life
  • Women
  • Bad

• What does it mean to have a mayor who has an organizing background? It means I have allies and partners on whom I can call for advice - and that are also holding my feet to the fire already.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Fire
  • Advice

• Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Heart

• My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• I get hit on so much it's not normal. I didn't realize so many men liked redheads.

  

  Alex Breckenridge
  • Men

• When you have three days to work on a scene, you can give all that love to the movie.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Work
  • Movie

• The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.

  

  Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel
  • People
  • Music
  • Funny

• I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Life
  • Good
  • Experience

• The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

  

  Davy Crockett
  • Long
  • Death
  • Enemy

• If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Scary

• An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

  

  David Nicholls
  • Character
  • Book
  • Missing

• If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Bond

• Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • School
  • Night
  • English

• I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

  

  Andy Garcia
  • Life
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Friends
  • Confidence
  • Compliment