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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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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The 'Kickin' It' set is so much fun, I find myself in a new adventure every week. I work with an amazing cast and crew.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
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I think it's really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.
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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.
