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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
Norm MacDonald -
Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
Norm MacDonald
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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
Norm MacDonald -
I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.
Norm MacDonald -
In love, first please the eye, then win the heart.
Norm MacDonald -
Actually, with those dirty movies, I find like, they're good for about fifteen, twenty minutes. I'm really interested. And, then, uh, there's one point, that all of a sudden I'm bored. You know? I just lose interest completely and I feel deeply ashamed.
Norm MacDonald -
There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
Norm MacDonald -
Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.
Norm MacDonald
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In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
Norm MacDonald -
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
Norm MacDonald -
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
Norm MacDonald -
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
Norm MacDonald -
It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.
Norm MacDonald -
I never do impressions, but I probably should. People like that stuff.
Norm MacDonald
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
Norm MacDonald -
A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.
Norm MacDonald