Quotes About Survival

Negative energy? Sure, there are awkward moments, but you're in 'Big Brother.' Everybody is trying to win, everybody is trying to form alliances, everybody is trying to kick everybody out of the house. If there wasn't negative energy, then we weren't playing the game.

How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.

From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.

I remember having mice in the house and my father taking some newspaper and beating me because mice was running on me while I was asleep.

I'm a nice guy, but people want to kill me.

When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.

There's only so much cold a Nigerian family can take.

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.

I've had a quite a few nightmares about being chased by walkers.

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

Fame put a lot of pressure on me in the Eighties and early Nineties - and I'm glad that I had the kind of makeup where I could come through it alive, keep myself in hand.

There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.

No water equals no life. We can have no oil; it's fine. No water - there is no plan b with no water.

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

Aprendí algo acerca de mí misma: que después de una experiencia tan desagradable, podía sobrevivir y seguir adelante...