Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
NORM MACDONALDI don’t have any ambition.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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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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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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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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I don’t care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
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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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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I’ve seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he’s lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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In 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.
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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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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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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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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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