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Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
Norm MacDonald
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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.
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Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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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.
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The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
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Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.
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The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
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It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.
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When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.
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Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!
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I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.
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I've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something.
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Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
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I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.
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I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
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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.
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The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
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Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some others of a moderate share that they have a great deal but those of elegance and charm generally know the perfection of their external graces so well, that they seem to covet that flattery most which heightens the opinion of their wit and judgment.
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