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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
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Quebec
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I don't know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it's fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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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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I would love to stay at SNL forever. But you can't stay in the same place. People think you're a loser.
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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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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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You can't love your team without hating another team.
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I don't have any ambition.
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Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some others of a moderate share that they have a great deal but those of elegance and charm generally know the perfection of their external graces so well, that they seem to covet that flattery most which heightens the opinion of their wit and judgment.
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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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Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.
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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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The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.
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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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It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.
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On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.
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Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!
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You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin' life again? Man, that's rough, eh?
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In love, first please the eye, then win the heart.
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