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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
Norm MacDonald
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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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This is a thing I read by a scientist... it said scientists now say that a man thinks about sex once every 7.3 seconds. Now, I know what I think every 7.3 seconds. It's just a bunch of meaningless gibberish.
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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I don't have any ambition.
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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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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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The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.
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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
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Note to self... Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!
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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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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 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 have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.
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