Lisa Bonet Quotes

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

Lisa Bonet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 16, 1967

Topics

SuccessPeopleMeWeirdQuietKind

Red is uplifting.

Jerry Lewis

RedUplifting

The too-big-to-fail reform project is massive in scope. In my view, it holds real promise. But the project will take years to complete. Success is not assured.

Jerome Powell

SuccessViewWillProjectRealTake

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France

CopySaidTakeWellBeenThing

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Aneurin Bevan

PeaceWorldCreatePossibleMiddle

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

Meryl Streep

PerceptionYouMeetFirstIndustry

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Stieg Larsson

LightWritingLiteratureQuestion

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

Rory Bremner

GreatCityVoiceRestaurantNow

Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community.

Mitch Kapor

LifeCommunityCommitmentDiversity

I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.

Jason Bateman

TimePlayHardWellWantedDid

When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.

Josh Fox

GovernmentInfluenceYouNoiseBig

I was a fan of jujitsu, so that pretty much got me started in fighting. I won a lot of local competitions when I was young and eventually won a ticket to go compete in Rio de Janeiro. In Rio, I struggled a lot in the beginning, living in the gym and not having much to eat, but eventually I joined the Nova Uniao Team and really improved my skills.

Jose Aldo

BeginningMeTeamFightingGymGo

When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.

Chester Brown

MeWorldInterestingInterestStuff

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