Bernie Mac Quotes

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

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• For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Me
  • Difference
  • Seeing

• The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Evolution
  • Theory
  • Mental

• But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Live
  • Two
  • Now

• Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Very
  • Starting
  • Union

• I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Mother
  • Day
  • Mom

• Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Nature
  • Search
  • Opinions

• I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Positive

• I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.

  

  Mako
  • Up
  • Man
  • Know

• Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Experience
  • Faith
  • Effort

• Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Experience

• There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own music, which let me know that women could write and produce their own music, which was an empowering moment for me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Women
  • She

• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Qualities

• I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • True

• Jewel-Like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of the moment.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

  

  Allen Ginsberg
  • America

• The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Good
  • Friendship
  • Wine

• He told me once that there is no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along - trying to wound his faith in order to test it - and I was just another stone in the way of his God.

  

  Colum McCann
  • God
  • Trying
  • Faith

• When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • People

• Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Live
  • Passes
  • Keeps

• That's death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Somebody loves you.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reaching

• I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

  

  Bernie Mac