Bernie Mac Quotes

I was a street performer for two years.

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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.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Giving
  • Knowledge
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• 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.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Work
  • Travel
  • Holiday

• I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Grandparents

• 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.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Heart

• I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Mind
  • Trouble
  • Something

• 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.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Time
  • Different
  • Man

• I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Think
  • Want
  • Actor

• If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Day
  • Morning

• Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • Everything
  • Interview

• 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.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Study
  • Toxins
  • Malnutrition

• Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

  

  Vash Young
  • Experience
  • Value
  • Something

• Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

  

  Abraham Maslow

• Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.

  

  T. H. White
  • People
  • Why
  • Bad

• I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Democracy

• Hopefully, at the end of all this, my music is going to be used as a tool to help people have meaningful conversations and meaningful relationships with themselves and with other people and with God.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• I was a street performer for two years.

  

  Bernie Mac