Norm MacDonald Quotes
All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.
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If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.
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I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.
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I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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There are days when I almost forget that I fought in that war. It was such a long time ago. I was young, so young, so fucking young. And all that's left of my youth is in my head. You know, the head, it's like a map. Not a map that gives you directions, but a map with names on it–names of guys who were killed in the war, names of the people you left behind, names of countries and villages and cities. Names. After all these years, that's all that's left. Names. But no directions. And no way to reach them, no way to get back what you lost.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
