Nov 21, 2024
Nov 21, 2024
A Pic
A Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArolURVjx_Q
And some Quotes :-)
It's a strange society that assumes it has the right to tell people whom they should love and whom they shouldn't. - Bruce Springsteen
People write whatever they want; they just want to fill up the space. 95 percent of the things that were written about me were false. - Asma Rehman
Being a celebrity is like taking an exam every second of the day. You’re judged 24/7. - Dimple Kapadia
There was far more interest in my face and figure than there ever was in my intellect. This is one reason that I have loved ageing—it has evened the scales. - Zeenat Aman
Racing thoughts supersede racing horses with their speed. - Aparna Chatterjee
It is always the simple that produces the marvellous. - Amelia Barr
Data is the new oil. - Clive Humby
A genius is someone who makes more and better use of their subliminal thought processes than the rest of us. - Frederic Myers
I adored my mother and from an early age was driven by a desire to make her happy and proud. She wasn’t a pushy person, but some innate discipline coupled with my Catholic school upbringing fostered in me the need to be the best at whatever I do. As a child, I excelled at school. I was head girl at Saint Joseph’s Convent and later won a scholarship to the University of South California. - Zeenat Aman
Happiness or success cannot be pursued, for both can ensue only as a by-product of our dedication to a cause greater than us. - Viktor Frankl
I am not denying the creativity of designers nor the skill it takes to create fine clothes, but what I am protesting is the obsession with appearance and couture that I see around me. In a world brimming with wonder and suffering, fashion should bring us joy and utility not turmoil and self-obsession. - Zeenat Aman
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves. - Amelia Barr
People get bored and forget. Why do they drop in and want to hear about what happened and when? Weak and withering, why am I supposed to repeat every trivia? Genuine interest, or a vicarious pleasure in death and disease? I want to put everything down on a piece of paper. I can offer it to them to read. - Bibek Debroy
Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome. - Amelia Barr
I have led a life of breathtaking highs and profound lows. There is nothing I regret, and nobody that I owe. Any shame or fear that has ever dogged me has long evaporated. - Zeenat Aman
You can’t live a life without thinking how stupid you were and what a mistake that was, and how self-sabotaging that was. I’ve been in therapy for a long time, and my therapist kept me from some of my more self-destructive impulses to do with substances and bad relationships and stupid behaviour. And having kids has also kept me on the straight and narrow. - Hanif Kureishi
There’s always tension between a mother and her daughter. The mother is saying something that she thinks is good for the daughter and the daughter will rebel because she believes she knows better. Only when a daughter becomes a mother does she understand where her mother was coming from. - Dimple Kapadia
My sons have been abroad after graduating from school, more American now than Indian. “Will I hop onto a plane?” For what? You know precious little about India. You will be less of a help and more of a hindrance. There will be a time to hop onto the plane. Not yet, not now. Not in time for the last hug, but in time for the funeral rites. At best, send money, if needed. It was no different for my parents and me. However, that was spread across different cities in India. This is transcontinental. - Bibek Debroy
Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself. - Wei Wu Wei
Everything we know in aviation, every rule in the book, every procedure we have, we know because someone somewhere died…We have purchased lessons…with blood. - Sully Sullenberger
If you tied your hands up for a day and had to spend the day without their use, you’d see what they mean to you. - Hanif Kureishi
Irreparable loss at the age of 70, when life’s productivity is as good as over? In another ten years, what social value will I bring? Can it be measured, quantified, imputed for? I give up the thought, too complicated. There are lives my life has touched, improved, even bruised. If they get to know, they may remember, with fondness and bitterness. Such people don’t write obituaries. - Bibek Debroy
There are incidents in my life that the public cling to and that are dredged up again and again. I am aware of these, and becoming increasingly immune to them. My life is not defined by a few bad days that transpired many decades ago, and I need neither sympathy nor defence. I am content in myself. - Zeenat Aman
The universe propels our evolution at a pace in proportion to our passion for uncovering purpose and meaning in our lives. - Anil Bhatnagar
Time is the only currency you spend without ever knowing your balance. Use it wisely. - Tiny Buddha dot Com
The nature of the world is transient. Fame, money, love, good times and bad—these will come and go. I found my inner mettle when I accepted this truth. The only thing that is in my control is my attitude. Life is just what you make of it, and mine has been magnificent. - Zeenat Aman
With renunciation life begins. - Amelia Barr
I don’t feel like reading, even when I can. I don’t feel like watching TV, even when I can. The same boring news, the same boring high-decibel debates. It all seems so transient and puerile. But so am I, transient and puerile, a dot that might have been wiped off. In that event, what would have happened? A few condolences, perhaps even from important people. “Irreparable loss.” Perhaps a posthumous Padma Bhushan or Padma Vibhushan. A few obituaries. - Bibek Debroy
Nobody lives forever. Our time on this planet is finite. Don't waste your time worrying about stuff that isn't that important. Focus on the things that are important, focus on your family, the people in your life. Do that thing that you've always planned to do one day, why not do it today. - Sir Chris Hoy