Bernie Mac Quotes
There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
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I try to take an exercise class twice a week.
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I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
