Norm MacDonald Quotes
In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
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I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.
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Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.
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When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.
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Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
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In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
