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.

  

  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.

  

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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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• Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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• The Declaration of Independence to which these great men affixed their signatures is much more than a political document. It constitutes a spiritual manifesto-revel ation, if you will-declaring not for this nation only, but for all nations, the source of man's rights.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
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• We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

  

  Ja Rule
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• We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
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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