Norm MacDonald Quotes
We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.
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As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know. Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn’t,either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who cared what happened to him. My name is none of your business,' he said, and continued to stare out the window, even though there was nothing but blurry brick out there. Can I call you None for short?
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I am completely half afraid to think.
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The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he's taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on the inside, he always scores!
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My dad's great. He's my biggest supporter. He's always told me that whatever I choose to do, I can do it. I just gotta put my mind to it.
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There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.
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I told the guys that the team is going to double- and triple-team Kobe at the end. So he's not going to get the ball. Somebody else is going to have to step and make shots.
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Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.
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If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.
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I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.
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Every time I want to give up on him, there's always something inside telling me to just give it time.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to you without your permission (illegal search and seizure, loud boy-band music in public places). They are protections, not gifts of material goods. Material goods and services must be taken from others, or provided by their labor, so if you believe you have an absolute right to them, and others don't choose to provide it to you, you then have a 'right' to steal from them. But what about their far more fundamental right not to be robbed?
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.
