Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
NORM MACDONALDI 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.
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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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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Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
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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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As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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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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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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They say that if you’re afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you’re actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I’m afraid of dogs.
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I don’t have any ambition.
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I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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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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