Norm MacDonald Quotes

Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.

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• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Drums
  • Bass

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Battle
  • Cry
  • Nine

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Black
  • Change
  • Feel

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Idea

• I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.

  

  Rain
  • Want
  • Rest
  • Movies

• I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Field
  • Plantation
  • Cane

• I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Way
  • Find
  • Volume

• I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Thought
  • End

• Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Influence

• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Up
  • Europe
  • Improve

• A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Creative

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Unique
  • Place
  • Special

• There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • American
  • Strong
  • Community

• If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

  

  Willow Smith
  • Hard
  • Ifs

• I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

  

  Sarah Brightman
  • Invented

• If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Different
  • Children
  • Power

• After 'Chandni Bar' there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After 'Page 3' people started avoiding such events. 'Traffic Signal' exposed the money flow through the mafia. I'm not apologetic about the brutal truth in my films. Almost 70% of my films are based on reality, and 30% I fictionalize or change to suit my film.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • Money
  • Truth

• That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened - good, bad, or anywhere in between - it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Theory
  • Principles
  • Happened

• Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Change
  • Principles
  • Practices