Norm MacDonald Quotes

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

Norm MacDonald

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• I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

  

  C. J. Box
  • People
  • Children
  • Real

• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Fan
  • Excited
  • Actress

• But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Great
  • Emotional
  • Jazz

• 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

• I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Dad

• Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Job
  • Help
  • Food

• Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Time
  • American
  • Too Much

• If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Life
  • Care
  • Smart

• The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Music
  • American
  • Influence

• We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Only
  • Cookbook

• The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Powerful
  • Moment
  • Stand

• Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

  

  Patanjali
  • Suffering
  • Failure
  • Ignorance

• The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Faith
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Crazy
  • Media
  • Lights

• In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Family
  • Chicago
  • Chemistry

• We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • History
  • Way

• On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Real
  • Blunt
  • Update

• Television was essentially my college.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • College
  • Television

• Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• I love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown to love.

  

  Judith Hill
  • Live
  • Performing
  • Studio

• If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Television
  • Comedian
  • Political Point