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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.

Norm MacDonald

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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Quebec
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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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RIP Amy Winehouse. We lost a true heroin addict today.
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When I started in Canada, I just did stand-up.
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[Televised stand-up] never really makes me laugh. The only one I ever saw that I liked was Richard Pryor, and that was [shot on] film.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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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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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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OJ Simpson was in a different kind of courtroom this week attempting to regain custody of his two children. In order to prove to the court how much he loves his kids, OJ pointed out quote 'Hey, they're still alive, aren't they?'
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Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.
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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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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
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I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!
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You're used to a TV show, and TV is just made for TV shows. It's not made for live events.So anyways, I was resistant to it, but I did it anyway.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.
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I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.
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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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