Bernie Mac Quotes
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.
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I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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The last 200 years, we've had an incredible amount of automation. We have tractors that do the work that horses and people used to do on farms. We don't dig ditches by hand anymore. We don't pound tools out of wrought iron. We don't do bookkeeping with books! But this has not, in net, reduced the amount of employment.
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The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.
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I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.
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I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.
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By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.
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It's a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
