Norm MacDonald Quotes
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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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.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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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.
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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.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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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.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
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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.
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I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.
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I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.
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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.
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I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.
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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.
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Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
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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.
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Over the course of my entire Wolverine career, I went from being a single guy to getting married and having kids, and I think you can see that progression in the way that I treated Wolverine.
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I get hit on so much it's not normal. I didn't realize so many men liked redheads.
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I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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Taking the company private was not the easiest thing I've done in my life.
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Indians have become very demanding. Gone are the days where you could get away with power outages.
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Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.
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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
