Norm MacDonald Quotes

I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.

Norm MacDonald

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• The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Live
  • Eating

• I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Time
  • Good
  • Good Time

• I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Yourself
  • Creativity
  • Scary

• At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • First
  • Silver
  • Loser

• I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Band
  • Thought

• I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • May
  • Think
  • Learn

• My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Physics
  • Helped
  • Exposure

• I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Democrat
  • Candidate
  • Unsuccessful

• I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Along

• The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Taken

• I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Love
  • Sexy

• Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Done

• There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Thinking
  • Diversity
  • Box

• My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• The Internet is a gift to fashion.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Fashion
  • Internet
  • Gift

• It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Being
  • Class
  • Luxury

• I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Mistakes

• I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.

  

  Nate Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Why
  • May
  • She

• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Different
  • Film
  • Exercise

• Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Star
  • Child
  • Fame

• I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Fame
  • I Hate
  • Recognized