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I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms and movies because I'm not a great actor, so if the material isn't good, I'm in torment while I do it.
Norm MacDonald
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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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They're like ''You're an alcoholic.'' I go ''No, I'm not.'' and then-apparently that's what alcoholics say too, you know?
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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!
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Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.
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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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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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In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
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They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.
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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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I don't have any ambition.
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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends the old, on the confidence of them.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!
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Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.
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I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you're all right. I don't have to go to premières.
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I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.
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There's that saying, I don't know art, but I know what I like. The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.
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