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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.
I was born in Mumbai. We stayed in a joint family. But in 1994, my father had to shift to Pune for business. I started working at a very early stage. Immediately after my SSC board examination, I took up odd jobs in shops, as I wanted to contribute to my family.
Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.
The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe — we are happiest when we are creating.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be.
Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.
It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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