Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.
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Competing in my first Olympics in the country where my parents came from is pretty insane. I'm feeling nothing but excitement.
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What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.
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Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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For some reason I can articulate my feelings better in song. I wish it would come out better in regular life too though. The issue is that I struggle with is that I'm worried about what people think, or how they'll react to whatever it is I have to say, and obviously that's not a good thing.
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Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.
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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
