Lisa Bonet Quotes
My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.
Quotes to Explore
-
Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
-
Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
-
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
-
I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
-
'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
-
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
-
I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
-
I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
-
I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
-
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
-
The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
-
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
-
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
-
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
-
Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
-
I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
-
I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
-
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
-
Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.
-
Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies.
-
No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
-
When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.
-
I was Jenny in 'Jenny and the School for Cats' when I was five years old. That was my first big break. Then I got to play the Artful Dodger in 'Oliver Twist,' and that was the most fun I've ever had.
-
My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.
