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- Nov 07, 2020
Survive Quotes
On resilience, and what it takes to last.
These lines treat survival as both a skill learned young and a mindset carried forward, one describing a tough neighborhood upbringing that instills a bring-it-on attitude. Related: Believe.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marie-Antoinette was born in 1755, the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis I. She was intelligent and artistic but devoid of the ambition or calculation required to survive in the fetid atmosphere of the French court. In many ways, her character was not unlike that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
- Birth
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a psychological and physical toll from the pressure to recreate ourselves in midlife. To survive as workers, we have to deny, on some level, the realities of our bodies - bodies that age and give birth.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I moved to London I couldn't afford to rent anywhere. So I housesat for a friend of my mum and dad's - and had to look after her sickly cat. That was the only way I could survive on a meagre intern wage.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a film works, you get more offers, appreciation and the latter is like oxygen. We survive on that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea behind 'Defending Your Life': Imagine if you had to sit in a courtroom and watch your life. I don't care who you are - if you committed a crime and you had to have all of your emails searched and made public, who on this planet could survive that? Nobody.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020