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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
Explore more quotes by Lisa Bonet
"I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism."
"Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino."
"A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk."
"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."
"I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up."
"We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share."
"When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been my dream all along, and it came true."
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