Quotes About Struggle

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

It took LGBT activists 15 years to defeat section 28, but this is not a movement that's afraid of the long struggle. They know all progress is hard-fought, that discrimination against any individual anywhere is discrimination against all, and that the campaign for true, global equality must therefore be won one issue, case and country at a time.

So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

In April 2005, I lost my father and after a few days, I went to Sajid Khan's place to discuss a film role. I wanted to keep myself busy with work so that I could forget the pain of losing a parent. When I went to meet him, he randomly asked me to touch his private parts.

To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it.

Consciousness is a disease.

I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart problem; it is that.

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

Anorexia is a real disease. The choice you do have is asking for help.

When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one being diabetes. I became a diabetic at 17 and went on this road of kind of self-destruction, eating-wise, until I was 40.

It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases.

For those who are so courageously battling these terrible diseases, the least we can do is not stand in their way.

I became so disenfranchised, I dropped out of school and I moved to New York.

I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

That's a disgusting thought to have to fight my brother. I don't even appreciate being asked about that.