Survivor Quotes - Page 5

• Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places - Darfur, Rwanda, even Colombia - where the dead have no faces and literally cannot be counted. Theirs are minuscule lives moving toward imperceptible deaths. For me, it is the essence of tragedy.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Memories, Moving, Funeral

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My fantasy life made me survivor. One day I knew that me, this skinny, ugly girl who was only invited to slumber parties when they were forced to - someday I knew I would be someone. That was my driving goal. It wasn't to be famous. I didn't want furs and signing autographs, I didn't care about any of that. I wanted to be someone other than myself.

  Kristen Johnston

  Girl, Party, Goal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

  Rene Cassin

  War, Honor, Trying

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• Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

  Mark Burnett

  Watches, Television, Trends

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• The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Jealous, Fighting

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.

  Etgar Keret

  Children, Father, Optimistic

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.

  Richard Masur

  Guy, Handful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches.

  Diahann Carroll

  Country, Cancer, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Survivors told me that sleep was a great escape from the nightmare that was Jonestown. I also longed for bedtime each night at Escuela Caribe; sleep allowed me to forget where I was for a few hours.

  Julia Scheeres

  Sleep, Night, Bedtime

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's very hard to understand when you're not out there but voting somebody off on Survivor almost feels like you're killing them.

  Aras Baskauskas

  Voting, Like You, Killing

  "'Survivor' Aras: I'd Be 'Stoked' if Vytas Won". ETonline Interview, www.etonline.com. November 21, 2013.

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• Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Book, Loss, Light

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• If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

  Susan Howe

  Voice, Poetry, Records

  Susan Howe (1993). “The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History”, p.47, Wesleyan University Press

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• Global warming is already acting upon us with an accelerated feedback and compounded effect that may be irreversible! We do not have eons or centuries or many decades. Most of us alive today may not even have the luxury of saying 'Après moi, le déluge' because we will be around to experience it ourselves. And if you think it will be 'interesting' or 'exciting,' ask the tsunami survivors if that's how they felt. This time the plutocratic drive to 'accumulate, accumulate, accumulate' may take all of us down, once and forever.

  Michael Parenti

  Thinking, Luxury, Interesting

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• Of the 2,000,000 Armenians in Turkey in 1914, one million have been slaughtered, and the survivors only 130,000 remain in Turkey and the rest are refugees and exiles. Armenian property losses are valued at over 5,000,000,000 dollars are more than three fourths of the estimated wealth of the Armenian race.

  Herbert Adams Gibbons

  Loss, Turkeys, Race

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• I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...

  Jeff Probst

  Book, Adventure, Kids

  "Probst Dishes 'Survivor' Drama, 'Men' Appearance". Interview with Lisa Hirsch, www.etonline.com. November 13, 2013.

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• There's always a question when you invest. Are you too early, are you too late, or are you just right? And there was a lot of hype about life sciences, around the sequencing of the human genome and a lot of people concluded that's not really there. But by the way, there was a lot of hype around the digital revolution just about the time of 2000 and the human genome, and it turns out that some of the world's biggest, most powerful companies are the survivors post that crash.

  Juan Enriquez

  Powerful, Hype, Digital Revolution

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.

  Jill Soloway

  Tattoo, Eight, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Of all the subjects I have photographed, the most controversial and the one that has moved me the most has to be the prostitutes who are getting on in years. They are true survivors.

  Maya Goded

  Years, Controversial, Subjects

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think the biggest challenge was being aware of a certain audience that was going to see this film [lone survivor]. There's a big difference from a typical movie, journalists and critics and film goers that go see it find that, that's the general experience you have as a filmmaker. So that just kind of proves my point that there's a really different audience.

  Peter Berg

  Thinking, Differences, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• I`m a sexual assault survivor. I have long felt like Bill Cosby needed to be held accountable. But I keep wondering if this is a system that can bring that accountability.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Long, Accountability, Bills

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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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• My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went into the woods with whatever guns and bombs and what not they could get their hands on, and just would fight Nazis, and try to help people escape.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Hero, Grandmother, Fighting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.

  Pat Summitt

  Real, Thinking, Decision

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.161, Crown Business

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• What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. People lost everything - family, friends. The rich culture of Cambodia was nearly extinguished. They are a nation of survivors. And while poverty and infant mortality affect a disproportionate amount of the people there, those I met were hopeful for the future and doing the best they can with
  what they had.

  Joy Bryant

  Country, People, Hopeful

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I feel a lot of sympathy for the young women I've written about, including Younger Janice. I think that all of them (me in Girlbomb, Samantha in Have You Found Her, and Elizabeth in I, Liar) had some early family trauma that contributed to their dysfunctional methods of dealing with the world, but I wouldn't call them/myself victims - survivors, maybe, but not victims. Nor do I think of them/myself as con artists.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Liars, Artist, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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