Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
NORM MACDONALDFew are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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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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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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I don’t have any ambition.
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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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I don’t care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
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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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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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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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Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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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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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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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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