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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The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.
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If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.
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A poet and a doctor. Maybe I could. This the first thought I have of it. Maybe I could.
