Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
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I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
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There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
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The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.
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It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
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I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'
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I was such a geek in school.
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Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.
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These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.
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There are certain people who react well in life-threatening situations, and our military and our law enforcement and our first responders tend to be those types of folks.
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For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.
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See! This our fathers did for us.
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A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.
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The only way to learn on a zero dollar budget is to talk to people.
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing things could be worse and being grateful they aren't. The alternative view that peace and happiness comes from the objective external perspective of having more and better things than at present, while important for growth, can be a never-ending source of jealousy, dissatisfaction and disappointment. A balance of the two, where people are grateful for what they have while striving for more seems the best blended perspective.
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Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.
