Lisa Bonet Quotes
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
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Many graduates, moving often in the first years of their post-college life, simply forget to update their addresses with Harvard, and so bills go unanswered and uncollected. This is called a 'technical default.'
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New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.
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Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.
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I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
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There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold together.
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My life is art. Its how I express God.
