Bernie Mac Quotes
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.
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In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.
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I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.
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It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington.
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I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.
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Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.
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Tiggers don't like honey.
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When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.
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I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.
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In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.
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I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.
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I'm a professional artist, that's how I make my living. So I watch the market. There is, it seems to me, a lot of pure financial speculation, and I don't think that's terribly healthy. Though as long as the money is getting back to the artist, I think that's good. I'm very happy younger artists can make money faster than we could. And we were making it faster than a generation before us.
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There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.
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The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.
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Bernie Mac is talented!
