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The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much.
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
Learn to expect less from life and more from yourself. Accept the changes that life throws at you. Remember, your destiny is pretty much in your hands. So, as your mom may have told you, keep them clean.
I have no problem with someone who disagrees with my life. That's your right to feel that way.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.
Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman — not the attitude of the prospect.
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
The power of makeup is incredible, but the power of you is cray cray.
We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants.
I know and I've always felt for Canada that we recognize that diversity is a great source of strength.
I do a lot of mixed martial arts — it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.
I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia's Empty Quarter. Now that I have, I can sheepishly join the chorus of those who revere the book as one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing.
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