Norm MacDonald Quotes
There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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I get that people want more diversity in TV and film, and I stand by that. I stand in solidarity with better diversity in TV shows, especially for Asian actors. I agree with that 100 per cent.
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I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more- also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.
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It just kills me when people buy a dog when there are dogs in shelters. I still get emotional when I think of Karl sitting in that shelter. I wasn't looking. I didn't even think I had time for a dog, and then I met this little one and he needed help. It's been so amazing to see him transform into a happy and confident companion.
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
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I get to travel the world doing what I love to do - making other people happy... They might not even understand my words, but the one thing everybody understands is music.
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It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?
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There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.
