J.P. Mac Quotes

... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.

You kind of have to be like " What have you been working the last five years for? Why are you complaining?" It's essentially me talking myself out of being a crybaby indie rock butthead.

Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.

Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.

From the moment we wake up each morning to the time we hit the pillow at night, we hear what people have to say, but are we really listening?

No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.

You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter.

You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

This is where God hangs out.

The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

Blessed with some success, so I'mma try my best to live my life right. When I see God, he'll be impressed.

When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.

I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?

I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time.

Treat it like your last night. Even if you broke, spend tonight like your cash right.

If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is.

I had always wanted to write a song called 'The Vicious Circle'. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

It's so crazy with the Internet and being able to play shows to people who are actually interested in you. I feel so lucky when that happens.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

Death isn't sad. There's nothing sad about it. Living a shitty life, that's sad.

When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.

In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.

Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.

It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.

When moonlight french kisses the Manhattan midnight There's a not a face without a teardrop that's in sight Midnights in Manhattan keep me dreamin' I think I'm gonna keep em

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

'Don't Cry Daddy' is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, 'I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy'. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.

Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.

Connan Mockasin from New Zealand. I met him a little while ago, I love his music.

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

The amateur has an infectious, contagious enthusiasm for golf and life.

As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.

That's kind of the weird thing about Salad Days. I had to block time off from touring and tell my management and label like no press, no nothing. Let me make an album. You guys are running me dead.

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.

It's a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.

It was weird [touring with them]. It felt more like we were playing for Phoenix. They asked us because they're fans of what we do.