Bernie Mac Quotes
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
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It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.
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Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.
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The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.
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In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.
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I see what keeps people young: work!
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This casket India's glowing gems unlocks And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
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I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.
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I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
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You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world.
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As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.
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We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.
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We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.
