Norm MacDonald Quotes

Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

Norm MacDonald

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• Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Strength
  • Motherhood

• The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

  

  Valerie June
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Values
  • Listen
  • Talk

• Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Management
  • Partnerships

• I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Different
  • Personality
  • Relationships

• Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.

  

  Dagobert D. Runes
  • History
  • Evil
  • Deeds

• Faith begins where religious pretension ends.

  

  Austin Farrer
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Ends

• What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Grace
  • Dignity

• Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.

  

  Vir Das
  • Comedy
  • Laughter
  • Record

• People ask me who he reminds me of. After this performance, he doesn't remind me of anybody.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • People
  • Performance
  • Reminds

• You can always forgive, you just can't really forget.

  

  Brian Thomas Littrell The Backstreet Boys
  • Forget
  • Forgive

• You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Friend
  • Suffer
  • Dreamer

• Few people love with the violence they hate.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Minds
  • Flattery
  • Conceit

• All I ever wanted in my life was to be treated as an individual. I have succeeded, to some extent. At least I'm sure that in the Lord's eyes, I am an individual. I am not a "colored" person, or a "Negro" person, in God's eyes. I am just me! The Lord won't hold it against me that I'm colored because He made me that way! He thinks I am beautiful! And so do I, even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful

  

  Amy Hill Hearth
  • Beautiful
  • Individual
  • Lord

• My mom and I were super close when I was a kid, her and I sort of ran off from her ex-husband. It wasn't such a good time for us and I remember listening to The Distillers with her. One time I actually asked her, 'Mom, can I shave my head into a mohawk?'

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • My Mom

• The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Up
  • Game
  • Stand

• I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • Legal

• Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Standup