Quotes About Survival

I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.

Some guys are athletes and some guys are fighters. But, whether I look down on that or not, they're just out there trying to do the best job they can to put food on the table, so I can't be too hard on them.

I've been in so many street fights.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.

I experienced the year 2000 dot com crash and the 2008 financial crisis, and it almost wiped out the company.

I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct.

My husband and I met in a house fire, basically.

I often joke that I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had.

I've been in a lot of fires.

If you think about where I'm from, I'm not supposed to be singing in the first place. I'm not supposed to be alive right now.

I was hit for the first time before I was married.

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.

Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in relation to people of color if they want to survive and even thrive.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

In the land of the skunks, he who has half a nose is king.

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

A lot of people need technology to survive. And if you're renting it and you don't own it or have control over it, you're at the mercy of whoever does.