Bernie Mac Quotes

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

Bernie Mac

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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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Way
  • Difficult
  • Aim

• 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.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Long
  • Children
  • Home

• The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Goal
  • Story
  • Helpful

• Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

  

  Carey Williams
  • Change
  • Daughter
  • Farmer

• 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.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Business
  • Man
  • Fear

• I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Teacher

• I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Remember
  • Something
  • Writer

• Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • School
  • High
  • Football

• 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.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Good
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • People
  • Age
  • Parents

• Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Time
  • Know
  • Silly

• 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.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • Why
  • Lawyer

• 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.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Fun

• I see what keeps people young: work!

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Work
  • Young

• This casket India's glowing gems unlocks And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.

  

  Alexander Pope

• 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.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Writing
  • Song

• A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. 'Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me...'

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Why
  • Mother
  • Father

• Without changing my style and who I am, they Trent Willmon and Dan Couch and Dale Oliver know how to draw those things out of me. It was a really cool experience on this record, because I tried really hard on the writing to make sure that I wasn't just writing it just like I wanted to.

  

  Cody Johnson
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Records

• Winners never quit, quitters never win.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Win
  • Quit
  • Winners

• My family is really happy that I'm playing Ram.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Family
  • Happy

• You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Grave
  • Cheese
  • Beef

• We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

  

  Bernie Mac