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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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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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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I love the Kerastase Hair Oils and the Philip Kingsley Elasticizer. They're great for making my hair really soft, but to be honest, any cheap conditioner works. Just leave it on and let it soak in, and it really helps, whatever you use.
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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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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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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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Gain confidence and you banish fear.
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I've always loved playing live shows. I love traveling, seeing the country. I've made a lot of lifelong friends on the road at shows. It's so neat to see that so many of our fans have become friends. There are these nice little groups of "X People" everywhere.
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Confidence is key. Always. Even when we might have messed up.
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The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
