Norm MacDonald Quotes
I have a little bit of an out-of-body experience where I enjoy the scenario, and I really do like seeing a crowd turn into a mob, and I do nothing to stop it. People can become really dangerous.
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
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My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.
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We must all sleep alone in the tomb, my love, but in life we are joined as one flesh - as our children attest.
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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
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I have a little bit of an out-of-body experience where I enjoy the scenario, and I really do like seeing a crowd turn into a mob, and I do nothing to stop it. People can become really dangerous.
