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I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.

Norm MacDonald

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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Television Presenter
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Quebec
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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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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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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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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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.
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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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I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you're all right. I don't have to go to premières.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.
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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.
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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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Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.
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The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
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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 want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.' I don't own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I'd have to buy something to protect it then.
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