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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
Norm MacDonald
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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.
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Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.
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I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.
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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.
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On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.
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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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All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.
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I don't know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it's fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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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.
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I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.' I don't own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I'd have to buy something to protect it then.
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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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Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.
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Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments.
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