Norm MacDonald Quotes

I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.

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• I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • City
  • Race
  • Meetings

• I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Emotion

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Always

• I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Because

• I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

  

  Aaliyah
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Appreciate

• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Evil
  • Human
  • Bed

• I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Same

• I watch a lot of football.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Football
  • Watch
  • Lot

• I'm a very proud actor.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Proud
  • Actor
  • Very

• I was in a convent for a year.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Year
  • Convent

• I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Myself
  • Fight
  • Prepare

• I'm understated in my approach.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Approach
  • Understated

• Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Men
  • Man
  • Genius

• But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • World
  • Think
  • Taken

• I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Reading
  • Curious
  • Ghost

• Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Business
  • Think
  • Change

• There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

  

  Iman
  • Want
  • Create
  • Follow

• The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Balance
  • Create
  • Themselves

• Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Men
  • Tears
  • Create

• Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Help
  • Powerful
  • Service

• That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she's like, 'I just want to be a mom.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Mom
  • Careers
  • Ambitious

• I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.

  

  Norm MacDonald
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