When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
NORM MACDONALDI can’t be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I’ll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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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 don’t have any ambition.
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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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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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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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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.
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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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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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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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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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