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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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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.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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He Quoyle did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.
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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.
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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.
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I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
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And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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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.
