Norm MacDonald Quotes
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
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Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
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If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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It's not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.
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It's very important to be as transparent, as real as possible, as a person.
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Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion.
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When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
