Norm MacDonald Quotes

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

Norm MacDonald

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• A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Church
  • Heaven
  • Never

• You have to be brave when you've got a kid.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Brave
  • Be Brave

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Being
  • Interdependence

• Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • You
  • Always

• If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Hate

• During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Future
  • Privilege
  • Citizen

• I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.

  

  Tan Le
  • World
  • Fear
  • Fall

• The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Progress
  • Personality
  • Sacrifice

• Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

  

  Sally Field
  • She
  • Young
  • Lawyer

• The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Nature
  • Hand
  • Photography

• When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Great
  • Looking

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Inspiration
  • Leader

• Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • History
  • Air

• He Quoyle did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Water
  • Boat

• I think they do it to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Up
  • Time

• What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.

  

  Lindsay Pearce

• I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Work
  • Theatre

• It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Woman

• Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas: Every revolutionary idea - in science, politics, art, or whatever - seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:(1) 'It's completely impossible - don't waste my time';(2) 'It's possible, but it's not worth doing';(3) 'I said it was a good idea all along.'

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Art
  • Don't Know
  • Inverse