Quotes About Resilience

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity.

I have this image of myself as kinda like the Energizer Bunny. I get knocked down, and I pop right back up.

Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.

People have been saying rock is dead for years, but the reality is that it just falls out of favor with pop culture from time to time.

The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win; they lose.

We sometimes feel a little world-weary where pop music is going.

You gotta stay on your P's and Q's. When you popping so hard, got these blessings coming down, you got the devil tryin' to get at you.

If you put me in a box, I'm a character actor. The thing that keeps popping up for me - it sounds really cliche - but I want to play something really physically challenging, something extremely demanding and strong.

We do have depression in the family, and I've experienced it as it pops up from time to time. It is easier to deal with when I have someone looking to me to do things.

My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.

I may not be top of the pops' anymore, but I seem to still be making a big impact.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

If you don't like this, we don't care - I think that's the essence of what popular music should be.

I try not to be influenced by success or popularity.

My job isn't to win popularity contests.

I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice. I mean, it's a pretty evenhanded loathing among a certain amount of the critical population, which used to be about 80 percent. So now I've gotten to the point where I just don't worry about it that much. It used to be very upsetting, now it's only mildly upsetting.

The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they've defeated us. From there, the modern Indian rights movement started, and it was a very hard fight, with a lot of stuff going against them.

An economy can survive with 10% of the population insolation. It can't survive when 50% of the population is in isolation.

Service members are more likely to have PTSD, but it's common in the general population as well.

I am Port Arthur. I'm the president of Port Arthur.