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

• Facebook already has a large political ad sales and operations team that manages ad accounts for large campaigns. Zuckerberg hinted that the company could follow the same 'know your customer' guidelines Wall Street banks routinely employ to combat money laundering, logging each and every candidate and super PAC that advertises on Facebook.

  

  Antonio Garcia Martinez
  • Money
  • Political
  • Team

• The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a third the size. In 'Babbo,' they are very long, they are very real. That's exactly how we make them in the restaurant.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Long
  • Real

• Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Art
  • Bad

• I've always thought that if you work really hard at something, you can get it.

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • Work

• When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless outside the language I was speaking, building simple sentences with the blocks I’d memorized, not communicating through a fluid medium.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Thinking
  • Communicating
  • Translating

• 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