I don’t have any ambition.
NORM MACDONALDComedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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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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A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.
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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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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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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
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Ever see this? It’s a homeless guy but he’s got a dog… The dog’s really thrilled with this idea. The dog’s going, Hey pal, I can do this by myself pretty well. The longest walk in the world you got me on here.
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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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