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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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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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 knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
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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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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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Philosophers often behave like little children who scribble some marks on a piece of paper at random and then ask the grown-up 'What's that?' - It happened like this: the grown-up had drawn pictures for the child several times and said 'this is a man,' 'this is a house,' etc. And then the child makes some marks too and asks: what's this then?
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I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
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The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed.
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It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.
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Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.
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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
