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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• Comedian
• Political Point

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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

• I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Real
  • Father
  • Career

• 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

• There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Earth
  • Taken
  • Woman

• 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

• After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Me
  • Engineering
  • Economics

• 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

• Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise. I used to be naturally skinny in high school and college. I was in cheerleading, ran track, and did gymnastics, so I had a built-in five-hour workout every day. Lately, I've been doing Pilates on the Megaformer, which is like Pilates on steroids.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Energy
  • Exercise
  • Gymnastics

• I think working with kids and seeing how kids are universally children - no matter what you do, they love playing on a bongo and they love drawing and they love playing - that is a great uniter.

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Playing
  • Drawing
  • Seeing

• It's television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.

  

  Chris Campanioni
  • Television
  • Dead
  • No One

• I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

  

  Susan Sullivan
  • Summer
  • Television
  • Afford

• Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Criticism
  • Form
  • Boredom

• 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