Norm MacDonald Quotes
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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I got lost but look what I found.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.
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My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.
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Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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I've worked for everything I have, but I want have everything that I worked for. I want to have what I can get.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.
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'Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.'
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It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.
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I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.
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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it.
