Bernie Mac Quotes
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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...Meanwhile in the USA paranoid Republicans have accused Barack Obama of being a ruthless despot hatching conspiracies to destroy the foundations of American society – yet in eight years of his presidency he barely managed to pass a minor health-care reform.
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
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I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.'
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It's maybe an unrecognized fact of academia that what you spend a lot of your time doing is convincing people of your vision and raising funds to support your research activity. So in that sense, transitioning to a startup wasn't that big of a transition.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
