Bernie Mac Quotes
When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I have always liked my hair when it's braided, because if I don't, it kind of runs in my eyes when I hit.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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I definitely write about my life and the issues I might have or the dilemmas I'm going through, but usually I write about it in a general way and make metaphors. Like "I'm the wolf and you are the moon ".
Nanna Øland Fabricius -
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
