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In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.
Norm MacDonald
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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.
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When I started in Canada, I just did stand-up.
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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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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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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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The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.
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I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.
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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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[sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].
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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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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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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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I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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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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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it.
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RIP Amy Winehouse. We lost a true heroin addict today.
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