Quotes About Survival

We all have to wear social masks in our daily lives to get by.

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

I think of dystopian as 'Mad Max,' as 'Book of Eli,' as the world is ending.

So much of 'Doomsday' is taken from the early 'Mad Max' films.

If I lost my job, I'd get a job at McDonald's.

That's the meaning of 'The Revenant': It's a return from death.

The meaning of life is life.

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.

The Pakistanis are very resilient people.

Maybe there are too many restaurants. Maybe some of mine need to close. So be it. I'll live with the market place.

Intelligence services all over the world, in order to retain their competitive edge, have to adapt or they won't survive.

I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.

When things don't go right, people are always trying to protect themselves.

At times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them - even if that means a loss of freedom. Such measures have been popular in the past.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.

Ceausescu was mad, and he made half of Romania mad. I'm mad because of him.

I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

I had a rough childhood.

Routine pap and HPV screenings save thousands of women from dying of cervical cancer every year.

Believe me, when you're sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you're going through it, you're going to be alive.

In death row every rule in society is flipped.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.