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.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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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.
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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.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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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.
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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.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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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.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.
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There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
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I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.
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The trajectory of a lot of black lives in the 20th century was people moving into cities. A lot of the issue with modern urban fantasy is that it's un-diverse, and that's crazy with what we know the history of cities here to be.
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My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he had one of those black American Express cards not available to general public. Gumball machines didn’t have slots for those.
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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.
