Norm MacDonald Quotes

None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.

Norm MacDonald

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• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.

  

  Dan Carter
  • People
  • Home
  • Looking

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Own
  • Run
  • Soviet

• It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Work
  • Always
  • Down

• I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Always

• I like performing in front of big crowds.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Like
  • Big
  • Performing

• There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • World
  • Kids
  • Baseball

• Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Always
  • Battle
  • Finding

• My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Fear
  • Small

• The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede - I related, because mine was, too.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Father
  • Action
  • King

• To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Working
  • Chosen
  • Patriotism

• Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Family
  • Yourself

• I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Things
  • Acting

• There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Dumb

• My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Up
  • Children
  • She

• It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Long
  • Political
  • Funny

• I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Crime
  • Worst

• The poor, who see no refuge or hope, cry aloud to a God who makes no reply, and then envy springs up in them when they consider the comforts and opportunities of the rich. They see the rich profligates, the wealthy fools, enjoying themselves unpunished. Turning to the teacher of religion, they meet the reply to their questioning of the justice which will permit such misery to those who did nothing requiring them to be born with no means, no opportunities for education, no capacity to overcome social, racial, or circumstantial obstacles, "It is the will of God."

  

  William Quan Judge
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Obstacles

• It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Police
  • Guilty
  • Members

• If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

  

  Edith Konecky
  • Grandma
  • Ethnic

• Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

  

  Nicholas Monsarrat
  • World
  • Running
  • Sailors

• None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Crime
  • Guilt
  • Imputation