I don’t have any ambition.
NORM MACDONALDIn estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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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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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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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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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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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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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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The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
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