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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.

Norm MacDonald

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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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I don't do much. I'm too lazy. That's my problem. Hang around my couch, watching the TV. Just too lazy. I realized this the other day, I get hit my a truck tomorrow - a big truck could hit me - paralyze me from the neck down. Wouldn't effect my lifestyle a bit really.
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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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There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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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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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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I've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something.
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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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The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.
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The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.
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The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
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You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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Generally I don't like traveling around saying the exact same thing. I don't think that's a very good thing to do with your life.
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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Note to self... Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised.
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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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[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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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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