Bernie Mac Quotes
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The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we're selling at our shows we're making or publishing ourselves.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
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Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
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My dad always made sense. My dad was only wrong when I didn't understand him. Had I listened to him, my life would have been so much easier.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.
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I was always an independent, even when I had partners.
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I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
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'Sorry,' I said sweetly, 'I’m the new one with the quick temper and the uncontrollable homicidal tendencies.'
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Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.
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I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.
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I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
