Staying Alive Quotes - Page 3

• I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do.

  Paul Auster

  Long, Age, Firsts

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.

  V. E. Schwab

  Simple, People, Alive

  V. E. Schwab (2017). “The Shades of Magic Series: (A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light)”, p.209, Tor Books

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• The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

  John Howard

  Important, Liberty, Alive

  National Summit on Terrorism, August 05, 2005.

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• Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

  Richard Gere

  Sharks, Water, Alive

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• Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

  Juliette Lewis

  Art, People, Joy

  "New again: Juliette Lewis". Interview witр Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Land, Accomplishment, Alive

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• When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.

  Ellen MacArthur

  Home, Trying, Records

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• What are we going to do about the injuries to our country still going on right in front of our eyes? It gets me out of bed in the morning. It makes me mad enough to get my blood up and want to get out there with [Mark] Twain and get it said and that is why I still hit the road and go out on the stage and keep working at staying alive.

  Hal Holbrook

  Country, Morning, Eye

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.

  Mark Burnett

  Real, Adventure, Islands

  Mark Burnett, Martin Dugard (2000). “Survivor: The Ultimate Game : the Official Companion Book to the CBS Television Show”, TV Books Incorporated

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• As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

  Bernard Malamud

  Perseverance, Men, Long

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.110, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

  Ayshay

  Mother, Stories, Alive

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Book, Ideas

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.

  Paul Henderson

  Cancer, Alive, Ifs

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• If you make the goal of your life just to stay alive, you'll fail. If you make the goal of your life the kingdom, you cannot lose.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Goal, Alive, Kingdoms

  Twitter post from Dec 05, 2014

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• It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.

  Donald Trump

  Media, Long, Stories

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.

  Lauren Bacall

  Thinking, Years, Trying

  "Actress Lauren Bacall reflects on life (w/ audio)". Interview With Maggie Galehouse, www.chron.com. March 11, 2009.

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• The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have redefined human life. The biggest change is simply that people live longer and have far more freedom to think about things other than staying alive.

  David Bornstein

  Freedom, Thinking, People

  David Bornstein (2004). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”, p.6, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Struggle, Writing

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I am breathing. That's how I'm staying alive!

  Ryan Stiles

  Breathing, Alive, Staying

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• BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER IT IS
  EASY TO TELL HOW YOU HAVE LIVED
  AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU.
  YOU SHOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE,
  WHETHER YOU THINK YOU DESERVE TO,
  AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE
  IT'S ANY GOOD TO ACT.

  Jenny Holzer

  Believe, Thinking, Done

  Jenny Holzer, Stefan Banz, Thomas Whitridge, Béatrix Ruf (2001). “Jenny Holzer: xenon”

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• Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.

  Lil B

  Years, People, Personality

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Alive, Flesh, Way

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• I only eat so that I can smoke and stay alive.

  Harry Dean Stanton

  Alive, I Can, Smoke

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• The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

  Campbell McGrath

  Interesting, Culture, Alive

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• My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live without inspiration. I go day to day and do the work because it's all I know. I know that if I keep moving I stand a chance. I must keep myself going until I find a reason to live. I need one so bad. On the other hand maybe I don't. Maybe it's all bullshit. Nothing I knew from my old life can help me here. Most of the things that I believed turned out to be useless. Appendages from someone else's life.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Inspiration, Hands

  Henry Rollins (2005). “Roomanitarian”, 2.13.61

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