Survivor Quotes - Page 19

• Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

  Bob Iger

  Reality, Would Be, Sometimes

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• Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.

  Abraham Foxman

  Memories, War, Reality

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• Being an entrepreneur is sexy... for those who haven't done it. In reality it's gritty, tough work where you will be filled with self doubt. Entrepreneurs are survivors.

  Mark Suster

  Sexy, Reality, Self

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• The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors.

  Shannon O'Brien

  Cancer, Brain, Needs

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• Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the tasks of early adulthood-establishing independence and intimacy-burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Growing Up, Memories, Children

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• I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Feet, Alive, Lasts

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.53, Penguin

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• The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us all.

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

  Dream, Memories, Journey

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1983). “Seek the House of Relatives”

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• An important documentary that sheds light on one of the most terrifying realities in the U.S. today—the commercial sexual exploitation of young girls. TRICKED is a comprehensive portrait of all the players in this human rights abuse: survivors, traffickers, johns and cops. Everyone should see this film.

  Rachel Lloyd

  Girl, Player, Reality

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• I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does.

  Meredith Brooks

  Doe, Quitting, Knows

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• All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

  Homer

  War, Home, Sea

  Homer (1981). “The illustrated Odyssey”

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• This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.

  Marie Osmond

  Believe, Needs, Answers

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• Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

  George Ayittey

  Blood, Hands, Reform

  "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Attitude, Way, Jokes

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• Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.

  Rachel Grady

  War, Cancer, Battle Wounds

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• I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor.
  MC's be out like bank robbers,
  Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor;
  DJ...the getaway driver.

  GZA

  Rap, Hip Hop, Fleeing

  Song: Living In The World Today

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• Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Animal, Holocaust, Vegetarian

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• Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

  Lena Dunham

  Purity And Innocence, Demand, Prove

  "Why Lena Dunham Spoke Out About Her Rape So Many Years After It Happened" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. December 10, 2014.

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• We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

  War, Victim, Used

  "Gayle T. Lemmon Talks About The Dressmaker of Khair Khana". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. June 05, 2011.

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