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.
NORM MACDONALDI always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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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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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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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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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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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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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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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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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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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.
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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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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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