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The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
Norm MacDonald
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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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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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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.
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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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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've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.
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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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Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!
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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.
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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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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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