Quotes About Resilience

I am never going to be made a Dame doing Dot.

I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.

People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me.

People can attack me personally, say what they want - I don't give a damn.

Championship caliber teams don't lose two in a row and they damn sure don't lose three in a row.

I don't get much respect from the industry in general, but that's OK. I didn't get into it for respect. I got into it to make people laugh, and that's what I'm doing. That's all I give a damn about.

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

I have an abdominal hernia which I tore and had operated on, and it's not the easiest thing in the world to get over. I'm gonna go on down the road, but hopefully I can get over the damn thing.

I beat Anderson Silva and then Luke Rockhold, who was, pound-for-pound, one of the best. Now I get to do Dan Henderson, who is a legend in the sport.

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

Yes, I'm a proud Latina woman, but before that - before the color of my skin, my accent, anything - I'm an actress, singer and dancer. I'm something bigger than just my background.

Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.

Having a diverse suite of U.S.-manned spaceflight systems to access space is inherently robust.

It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise emergency systems that work really well - whether it's getting the babies out of a collapsed hospital or putting together a community kitchen to feed everybody for the next few months.

A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.

I know firsthand how critical support systems are.

Support systems and support groups are so important because that's what makes you stronger.

I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.

When men's lives become extremely hard, women learn how to deal with them and assist them but also develop quiet systems of coping and managing.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.