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In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
Norm MacDonald
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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking I'm terrible at acting I'm terrible at dealing with executives I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money.
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There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.
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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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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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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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Ever see this? It's a homeless guy but he's got a dog... The dog's really thrilled with this idea. The dog's going, Hey pal, I can do this by myself pretty well. The longest walk in the world you got me on here.
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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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The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.
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I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on 'Late Night.' We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest.
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I had a show that people thought used a laugh track. It wasn't it was the real audience going crazy after everything that resembled a joke, that they could technically call a joke.
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Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
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I've shown people Richard Pryor who've never seen him, and most of them don't like him.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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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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