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"We believe that no matter where you live - whether a village in Punjab or the bylanes of Chandni Chowk, an old section of Kolkata or a new high-rise in Bangalore - every person deserves the same chance to live in security and dignity, to get an education, to find work, and to give their children a better future."
"Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins."
"No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe."
"Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars."
"I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life."
"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."
"Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience."
"Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human."
"I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve."
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
"You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them"
"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill."
"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."
"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one..."
"the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul."
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
"The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world."
"Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life."
"We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty."
"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water."
