Bernie Mac Quotes
I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
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I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
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Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
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I have such a big mouth.
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Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
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I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
