Norm MacDonald Quotes
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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Let us have peace.
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.
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I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.
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When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.
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It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.
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We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.
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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
