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.
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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.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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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.
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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.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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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.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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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.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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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.
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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?
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.
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I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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I have enough to think about - I just don't ever want to have to think about my car.
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It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.
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If it's not hard, you're not dreaming big enough!
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I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.
