Bernie Mac Quotes
I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I know I look super young.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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I always have to be writing.
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I am not the best. I don't have to be. I am enough.
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Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.
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I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.
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I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.
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I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.
