Bernie Mac Quotes

When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.

Bernie Mac

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Together
  • Growing
  • Friend

• The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • High
  • Mad
  • Strange

• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Life
  • Men
  • Career

• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • God
  • Home

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Long
  • Career
  • Golf

• Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Strong
  • Rising
  • Personage

• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Responsibility

• I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Live
  • Three
  • Household

• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Time
  • Men
  • Live

• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Happiness
  • Beauty
  • Promise

• I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Stage

• It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Forget
  • Easy
  • Noise

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Song
  • Being
  • Lyrics

• Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Very
  • Little

• In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• When I was a kid, when the Walkman came out, I was sold. I listened to music 24 hours a day.

  

  James Murphy
  • Music

• Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Pizza
  • Fat
  • Mystic

• At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.

  

  Jamie Muir
  • Up
  • Art
  • College

• Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Success

• The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

  

  Zeno of Elea
  • Science
  • Race
  • Example

• When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Gay