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.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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• Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

  

  Rachel Shelley
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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.

  

  Barry McGee
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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.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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• There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

  

  Edie Falco
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• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  

  Adam Osborne
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• Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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• Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

  

  Walter Scott
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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.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
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• Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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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.

  

  Samuel Alexander
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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.

  

  Zach Anner
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• The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
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• I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life! Steve Jobs

  

  Steve Jobs
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• Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.

  

  Iggy Pop
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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.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Nation
  • Morals
  • Custom