Norm MacDonald Quotes
Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?
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I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.
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I started playing the ukulele in the year 2000. That sounds so futuristic saying it like that. The year 2000.
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I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.
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Every one of our affiliate stations was established and exists to reach women 25 to 54.
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There's a lot of mystery just inherent in the story of 'Descender.' There's sort of a central mystery that runs throughout it.
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I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don't need a boyfriend.
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We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not trying to get there for Christmas. We're trying to get there for eternity. We want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us to follow: a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect example.
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We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.
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Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!
