Bernie Mac Quotes
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I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
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I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
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If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
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I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
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Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
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Big bangs don't make this. That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical. You and I can't make livers. Things banging don't make livers. This is mystical stuff. This is magic. This is perfection.
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The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.
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I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
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Resign, v. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
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I got given a pair of Christmas socks with penguins on. They know you're obviously not going to wear them. I think they do it just to annoy you, to be honest.
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.
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I was very upset because I did not have a fair trial to prove my loyalty to this country.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I was a street performer for two years.
