Quotes About Resilience

It was already hard enough growing up in the Philippines but imagine being blind, that's 10 times harder.

Philly is old-school.

When people look at me, ask me, or say something to me, they know I'm Philly.

My toughness comes from just being from Philly, man.

Philly guys have a different toughness from anybody you've probably ever met. That's what I hang my hat on.

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

You have to be philosophical about life, you cant angst over it too much.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Having a phobia has changed me.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

A lot of stuff has happened to me and Phoenix has always been there for me.

Words do cut, and they do hurt. It was one thing growing up where you were bullied, but you'd just come home. Now you can't really escape it. It's to a point where you turn off that phone, you live your life, and you try not to let the words of others offend or stop you from being you and living your life.

I have a very big phone book and a very long reach around the world. And I think - I don't think, I know - that 95 percent of the people who I know who weren't born into success who have become successful and done things that are different and made a lot of money and had a lot of excitement in their life are people who never hear the word 'no.'

I'd given my life and my soul to Kajagoogoo and then after a cheap phone call, it was all over. I did cry and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Anybody is entitled to break down under those circumstances.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

I don't have a relationship with Yoko. I've tried contacting her many times after John had died. She wouldn't return any of my phone calls.

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

I'd become a bit of a joke. People would make memes, chopping my head off in a group photo and putting a monster or ET on there. I'd be in live Q&As and these things would pop up and I'd have to just sit there.

In the beginning, the clients would say, 'This is too much,' but over time, the ones I liked kept working with me. They'd say, 'It's not too much. Coco can still be Coco. She still gives 100 percent when she's on a photo shoot.'

I can't express enough to anyone who is fighting for whatever their dream is, whether it's to become a doctor, or a teacher, or a photographer - it doesn't matter - it's such a hard, hard road.

The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass for a Gentile.