Norm MacDonald Quotes

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Norm MacDonald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: October 17, 1963

Topics

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As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.

Robert Gottlieb

CourseEditor

There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.

Merle Haggard

LifePoliceStoryMy LifeYouLook

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

Steve Case

PeopleChallengesComputersPersonal

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

Shimon Peres

LearningNeverAlwaysDefenseKnew

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Milton Friedman

FreedomHistoryCapitalismPolitical

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

Donald Justice

SpeakSpecialSomethingCommonDoom

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:

Chuck Mangione

MeYearExperiencesPleasantMany

I never declared I wanted to be an astronaut, as I considered that was presumptuous.

Brian Binnie

NeverWantedAstronautPresumptuous

Fashion has always been influenced by hip-hop.

Syd

FashionHip-HopAlwaysBeen

Let's make what Americans buy. Buy what Americans make. And sell it to the world.

Rick Perry

WorldBuySellMake

I grew up off the grid in Vernon, and I saw my parents work hard every day, as teachers but also while farming and building a log home. So from a young age I knew the value of hard work.

Ryan Holmes

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We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's minds. Perhaps we dismiss as irrelevant matters of crucial concern to those we love. That's life as most of us experience it, and which few movies document with such understated acuity as 'Boyhood' does.

Richard Corliss

LifeLoveExperiencePeopleMovies

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