Norm MacDonald Quotes
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.
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The waiter just flashed me something that said, "Chew bubblegum." Every morning, when I was about to go to the Oprah competition, my friend used to say this line in a video game to me: "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum." There's a strict policy that you can't encourage anyone on a reality show, that would give them an edge.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base.
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Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?
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Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.
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The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
