Bernie Mac Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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It's all because of my parents that I am gifted with such good looks and people get attracted to me. I have built an image in the industry, and because of that, I have so many female fans. I want to build my male fan following, too.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
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I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.
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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
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Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.
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I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.
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To how much lying, extravagance, hypocrisy and servilism does not the fear of ridicule lead? Human respect makes us cowards and slaves. It may deter from evil, but much oftener it drives to baseness. 'We are too much afraid,' said Cato, 'of death, exile and poverty.'
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
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I can't build myself by beating somebody down.
