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There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up. And then I'm like, There's more work in the States.

Norm MacDonald

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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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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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They're like ''You're an alcoholic.'' I go ''No, I'm not.'' and then-apparently that's what alcoholics say too, you know?
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The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends the old, on the confidence of them.
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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 can't love your team without hating another team.
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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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Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.
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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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Many people are skeptical about marriage of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Pressley. They say, Lisa Marie is more of a sit at home type, while Michael Jackson is more of a homosexual pedophile.
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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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