I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It’s like, ‘Bring it on!’
I have a master plan as an artist. I’ve always said I’m not going to be punching nobody’s clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them – and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.
Marriage fascinates me: how we negotiate its span, how we change within it, how it changes itself, and why some relationships survive and others do not. There isn’t a single marriage that couldn’t provide enough narrative arc for a novel.
The standard theory may survive as a part of the ultimate theory, or it may turn out to be fundamentally wrong. In either case, it will have been an important way-station, and the next theory will have to be better.
I think there’s a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don’t have to think about it.
I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.
There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
I’m a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: ‘Don’t hold grudges. If you do that, you don’t lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.’ I honestly think that’s why I was able to survive and have some success.
After a bath, we all love to dry off with a towel. But do we need it to survive? No. It’s a luxury.
Memphis breeds hustlers, I feel. It’s just cutthroat living period, so to survive around vultures and savages like that, it prepares you for whatever profession you go in.
Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody’s role, and when you’re in a group like that, that can’t survive.
Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won’t survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin’s ‘Courant’, it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America’s last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.
Climate change is putting pressures on the resources we need to survive: water; agricultural land; food.
The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive.
For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions – both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.
The water system in this country is overwhelmed, and we aren’t putting enough resources towards this essential resource. We simply can’t continue to survive with toxic drinking water.
Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth – and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn’t work out.
Sir Stirling Moss, who said that women don’t have the mental aptitude to take part in F1, is from a different generation. There’s no reason why women can’t rise to the top in F1. If you’re not good enough you don’t survive.
As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a sense of purpose.
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write – with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.
People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it’s a sense of humor. If you’ve got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.
I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.
But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I’m not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.
I’m very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.
You’ve got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie’s good enough, it’s going to survive; and if it’s not, well, it won’t.
You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.
A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer’s name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.
You reach a point where you’re trying to survive. You’re just trying to put the ball in play. You’re not yourself. You’re searching for your identity as a hitter on a nightly basis. That’s just really hard. And it is not atypical at all for players to need to change their environment in order to rediscover who they are.
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
I eat to survive, you know?
I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something – I guess you could call it hope.
I have completed 43 years in politics and have been a minister of state, chief minister, and a Cabinet minister. A person who survives so many years is bound to face some attacks. It doesn’t affect me because I know the truth.
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
I trust myself. You need that to survive.
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for everything, but I don’t wanna make it seem like I wouldn’t be able to survive without fame. ‘Cause I did it for 13 years.
When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn’t get hung in a locker for two hours. That’s a blessing.
I’m challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment.
If your subjects are eternal… they’ll survive.
Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.
I was just a scrawny, skinny kid just trying to survive like any other boy in high school.
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world.
Well first of all it’s a business and it’s a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that’s getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
If Obama raises my company’s taxes by 20 percent, how am I going to be able to survive as a company? Well, if I’ve got 30 employees, that means I’m going to have to lay off 10 employees so I can be able to keep up with the health and benefits and pension plans for my other 20 employees.
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
The simple facts of Chadian life – what it takes to survive in that kind of climate with nothing but a hut and some animals – stunned me. And this made me realize, perhaps for the first time, how easy my life was compared to those of people in less privileged societies.
In order to survive, I created a certain type of aura about myself that I was the baddest chick walking down the street. Anytime somebody underestimates me, Thug Rose comes out.
Uber survives only if people trust us. You have to trust us with your data. You have to trust us with your safety or the safety of your loved ones. And we have to earn that trust every day in the way that we operate.
There’s a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can’t survive. They’re the ones starting each sentence with ‘The economic model says.’
As I represent the next generation of the Akkineni clan, I’m expected to do much more. It’s the only fear that makes me realize how hard I have to work to survive.
I will say this: In order for the planet to survive, there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism.
The Christian Armenian story was the Polish Jewish story. The efforts of the Armenians to stay alive in Musa Dagh chimed with those struggling to survive the ghetto.
I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That’s why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
