‘How to Survive a Plague’ is history-telling at its best. It’s a film I’ll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It’s a movie that I cannot forget.
I don’t think you can create culture and develop core values during great times. I think it’s when the company faces adversity of extraordinary proportions, when there’s no reason for the company to survive, when you’re looking at incredible odds – that’s when culture is developed, character is developed.
If we don’t figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we’re not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.
To survive is to win.
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
North Korea is still my homeland, my country. I suffered on the outside because I was alien, without identity. I was nobody. I was in the worst situation, fighting for everything, to survive.
I feel like I present the way I need to present in order to survive and feel like I can navigate.
I’ve been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career here in Chicago. I’ve always been an optimist; I believe you have to be in order to survive, to be honest with you – in health, with what I’ve been through. That’s the way I am.
I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, ‘There was AC/DC, and here’s Journey,’ because computers can do that.
I know that there’s a god because I was able to survive everything that I’ve been through – all of the tough times – and I’m still at the top of my game.
Venezuelans live on 3 dollars a month. That’s a tragedy. That is impossible to survive under these conditions.
Travel means growth. You have to see something new. You have to grow. You can’t grow in the same place. Travel takes the edge off and you are thrust into a new environment where you are forced to survive and to learn the language.
From the time I was elected to parliament, I was not voting for the government. I was sure it did not have a chance to survive. From the beginning, I was one of the organizers of the Maidan.
People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.
The United Nations is calling this the decade of action, from 2020 to 2030, because if we don’t take immense action, there will be irreversible damage. If we don’t, we are looking at an increasingly difficult world to survive in.
Having started with Bollywood and then moving to Telugu industry, I feel that it is not possible to survive without talent in any industry.
Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
Because of outdated regulations, workers in different types of contract often have unequal access to healthcare, pensions, education, and training, as well as other social benefits. This has to change for countries to remain competitive and for our businesses and workers to survive in the digital age.
Though I was aware that the success rate in film industry was one percent and how difficult it was to survive, I wanted to try my luck as an actor.
My all-time favorite is Brad Pitt in ‘Interview with the Vampire.’ He’s so sexy. I’m a fan of anything he does, but in that film he’s a vampire who doesn’t want to feed. There’s something super sexy about someone who has to feed to survive but doesn’t want to do it.
What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
For a country like ours that needs to stay ahead of the world or go under, we must do great, ambitious things – like going to the moon – to survive.
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.
You’re taught that you can keep going in the military. Your point of collapse is not what you thought it was. Your body is built to survive, and when you think you’re going to collapse, you still have so much more left in you.
The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.
America provided things that form the foundation of who we used to be: the prospect and potential of hope, mercy, and freedom for strangers who came carrying not much more than a determination to survive in a big country with a bigger heart.
High corruption and the influence of big business and the wealthy elite keeps the poorest Nigerians trapped in poverty and cut off from the benefits of economic growth and basic services. Some people – searching for the means to survive – became vulnerable to groups like Boko Haram.
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
I’ve been able to survive a lot of things, and I am especially interested in survivor stories.
There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job – they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
In the ’70s, you didn’t know who was going to survive in a disaster film.
I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.
Jazz isn’t dead yet. It’s the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it’s a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it’s coming out of the U.S., it’s not going to survive unless it’s got some jazz influence.
I started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.
I’d like to think I’ve overcome. I was not a person that was supposed to survive New York City, that was ever going to write my own songs or have children.
When I was at Hinckley I was on £200 a week. I was flying around getting myself into trouble here and there. It was a learning curve, relying on money that wasn’t coming and having to survive.
After a bath, we all love to dry off with a towel. But do we need it to survive? No. It’s a luxury.
I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.
My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that’s what I’ve always had to do to survive.
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
Typically in ‘Game of Thrones,’ people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.
Usually when you’re auditioning for something, you are taking whatever is coming at you and saying ‘yes’ because you have to to survive.
We started our company out of a need to survive, but we’ve built it based on a mission not only to help others survive but to prosper. In fact, we view ourselves as a mission with a business, rather than a business with a mission.
To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out.
I became a freelance stylist to survive, and then I had a kid. I bankrupted in 1988 and had a kid in 1990.
I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.
It’s very rare that you have a liberal run as an unabashed liberal. They have to lie about it. They have to mask who they are. And in order for them to survive and thrive, they have to keep that up.
When I did ‘E.T.,’ it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of ‘This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I’m going to survive.’
