Norm MacDonald Quotes

It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.

Norm MacDonald

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• I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Mistake
  • Try
  • Blame

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Different
  • Politics
  • Ethics

• I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Act

• I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Girl

• Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • School
  • Religion
  • Ethics

• I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Need
  • Hollywood
  • Necessarily

• Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled matter-something vital that we cannot build out of these parts. There is surely something else, some piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and that owes no homage to the sun.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Important
  • Reality
  • Sun

• Clap for the heavy weight champ ME But I couldn't do it all alone WE

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Alone
  • Humble
  • Weight

• There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Crazy

• Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.

  

  Tadeusz Borowski
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Youth

• How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Death
  • Control
  • Environment

• For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.

  

  Jean-Jacques Cadet
  • Earth
  • Style
  • Rap

• To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Succeed
  • Being Yourself

• I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Future
  • Cancer

• I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

  

  Donald Miller
  • World
  • Present
  • Person

• Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Attention
  • Learn
  • Interest

• I say to you with all the fervor of my soul that God intended men to be free. Rebellion against tyranny is a righteous cause. It is an enormous evil for any man to be enslaved to any system contrary to his own will. For that reason men, 200 years ago, pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Free
  • Evil

• It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Imagine
  • Reputation
  • Represents