Norm MacDonald Quotes

Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

Norm MacDonald

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• Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Justice

• The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Through

• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Patience
  • Trees

• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Power
  • Dark
  • Deep

• I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Think
  • Guitar
  • Touch

• Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Enemy
  • Thoughtful

• Fredo Lampe. Am Rande Der Nacht. For me, name and title evoked those lighted windows from which you cannot tear your gaze. You are convinced that, behind them, somebody whom you have forgotten has been awaiting your return for years, or else that there is no longer anybody there. Only a lamp, left burning in the empty room.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Good
  • School
  • Study

• What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Difference
  • Taxidermist
  • Tax Collector

• My mother is amazing. She moved from Surrey to London, taught herself English, and found a job.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • She
  • Job
  • Mother

• Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.

  

  John Buchan
  • Loyalty

• I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • World
  • Remember
  • City

• I'm not worried about where I rank between other QBs in the league.

  

  Eli Manning
  • League
  • QBs

• With a national plan, we'll have a quick jump-start and an opportunity to save more people

  

  John Whiting
  • Opportunity
  • Save
  • National

• For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Riches
  • Occasion

• Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Reason
  • Care
  • Exercise

• Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Virtue
  • Difference
  • Chastity