Staying Alive Quotes - Page 5

• I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.

  Dat Phan

  Jobs, Shopping, Two

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• Sad when you spend more time trying to stay alive than living.

  J. B. Smoove

  Trying, Alive, More Time

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• The dreams now were simply of staying alive.

  John Marsden

  Dream, Alive, Staying

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.

  Kim Basinger

  Drinking, Order, Hygiene

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• Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? The only reason I fought so hard to stay alive in China was because I didn't want to die for nothing. Today, I can die for something. My way, my choice.

  Jack Bauer

  Differences, Choices, Dying

  "24/ Day 6: 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m". January 2007.

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• I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

  Quentin Crisp

  Believe, Alive, Conventions

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Art, Successful

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• Writers and reporters need to remind themselves they're not to be judged solely by the number of clicks or eyeballs on a given story, but there is this other value and this other important mission, and the key is balancing the two so that you stay alive long enough, whether you're an individual writer or whether you're a whole news organization, to keep doing what you're doing but that you don't get so driven by that that you forget that what you're supposed to be doing in a higher sense is informing people, is elevating the debate and not lowering it.

  Frank Bruni

  Long, People, Important

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

  Anne Lamott

  Loss, People, Alive

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• In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

  David Hackworth

  Men, Order, Rifles

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• Dictators are not strategists in the way I normally use that term. All the dictator cares about is survival. That means constantly worrying about the tactical response, "What do I do today, tonight, tomorrow morning, to stay alive?" Vladimir Putin doesn't care what happens a year or five years from now. He just cares about staying in the game. That is all he needs to survive.

  Garry Kasparov

  Morning, Mean, Worry

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The university is one of various funding structures by which people who want to do theoretical work stay alive, the same way that people go to grad school, not because they think it's going to change the world but because there's no patron system anymore, and they need some scaffolding of support while they're trying to figure out how they can proceed in their lives. I think that's utterly legit. A lot of our better theorists and thinkers, that's what the university is for them.

  Joshua Clover

  School, Thinking, People

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• I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Food, Alive, Ridiculous

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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• Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.

  Mira Grant

  Lying, Needs, Alive

  Mira Grant (2011). “Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Your staying alive means so much more than you really know, or that anyone is aware of at this moment.

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Mean, Alive, Moments

  "Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. December 9, 2015.

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• Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel your life while you're living it?" You know, there's somewhere to go that was here before we were and is going to be here after us, so get out there in it. It doesn't take somebody who's got some self-important sense of their own attachment to nature to recognise that you're just stupid if you don't go out there.

  Sean Penn

  Stupid, Mean, Attachment

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.

  Carl Safina

  Trying, Doe, Albatross

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• I think in the inception and creation of the characters, improv was the most important part for me, because I wanted to feel at home in those characters. I wanted to feel like I could commit to them. And so much of improv is saying yes and committing, so I think that's where the improv came in. Even if I'm saying yes to the X across the room from me, or the tennis ball on a stick, I have to stay alive.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Home, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Hurt, Funny Things

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

  Toni Morrison

  Differences, Needs, Alive

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.

  John Irving

  Television, Alive, Feels

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• Worry about staying alive first. Then worry about how you're going to live.

  Richelle Mead

  Worry, Alive, Firsts

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.225, Penguin

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• It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves you. Even just shows an interest. Even someone who doesn't exist, or isn't yours. No, no! They don't even have to love you! They just have to be there to love! Target for your arrows. Magnetic Pole to drag on your compass needle and stop it spinning and tell you where you're heading and...Someone to soak up all the yearning. That's what I think.

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  Love You, Thinking, Arrows

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• The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enemy, Alive, Sake

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Frank Cameron, Don Dombowsky (2008). “Political writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: an edited anthology”, Palgrave MacMillan

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• Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings, for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

  George Orwell

  Heart, Differences, Feelings

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