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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.
Norm MacDonald
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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.
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In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.
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Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.
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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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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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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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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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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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I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.
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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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After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she's gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons admitted that he is really, really, really, really gay.
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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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