Norm MacDonald Quotes

Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.

Norm MacDonald

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• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Politics
  • Now

• I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Known
  • Supreme Court

• There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • California
  • Building

• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Taken

• When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Book
  • Wind
  • Teenager

• Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Singing
  • See

• I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Beginning
  • Design
  • Jewelry

• Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Working
  • Police
  • Corrupt

• I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Life
  • Love
  • Respect

• I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • You
  • Play
  • Stage

• Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Think
  • Media
  • Social Media

• You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.

  

  Dan Severson
  • America
  • Christian
  • Liberty

• 'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • People
  • Star
  • Direction

• Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • May
  • Party
  • Far

• We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Together
  • Growing
  • Stop

• He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Career
  • Know
  • Doing

• I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

  

  Chris Abani

• Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.

  

  Fred Korematsu
  • School
  • Justice

• We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.

  

  Y. C. James Yen
  • People
  • Work
  • Respect

• I am spiritual. I believe God loves and is pulling for all of us.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • God
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• Why not simply allow them unlimited vacation? Anecdotal reports thus far are mixed—but from a game-theoretic perspective, this approach is a nightmare. All employees want, in theory, to take as much vacation as possible. But they also all want to take just slightly less vacation than each other, to be perceived as more loyal, more committed, and more dedicated (hence more promotion-worthy). Everyone looks to the others for a baseline, and will take just slightly less than that. The Nash equilibrium of this game is zero. As the CEO of software company Travis CI, Mathias Meyer, writes, “People will hesitate to take a vacation as they don’t want to seem like that person who’s taking the most vacation days. It’s a race to the bottom.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Vacation
  • Anecdotal reports
  • Game-theoretic perspective

• Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Respect
  • Rule
  • Reverence