Survivor Quotes - Page 10

• Think about for a minute what your body goes through out there. On a Friday night, you have a steak and then Saturday morning, you get up and have some eggs and some pancakes. Then Sunday, you're on 'Survivor' and suddenly you have nothing.

  Jeff Probst

  Friday, Morning, Sunday

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• I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.

  Heidi Klum

  Littles, Little Things, Instinct

  "Heidi Klum: A Supermodel's Secrets to a Sizzling Marriage". Interview with Holly Hays, www.sfgate.com. August 06, 2010.

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• Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Believe, Heart, Mind

  Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Letter 19 (1796)

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• In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

  George Stigler

  Topics, Size, Method

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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• The atomic bomb survivors... cannot wait another 50 years. Their highest hope is to see the abolition of nuclear weapons within their own lifetime. It is a steep climb to this goal, but one from which we must never relent.

  Iccho Itoh

  Years, Goal, Waiting

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• Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Gun, Night

  "Toast: And Other Rusted Futures". Book by Charles Stross, 2002.

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• There are so many fantastic roles, but the ones that have always drawn me to them are the loners who, for whatever reason, never quite fit in and knew it and had to find their own way. I've always been drawn to that, for some reason. I've always been drawn to that sad, isolated place, but what it produces in behavior is something else, entirely. For whatever reason, I'm drawn to these people. Essentially, I think what draws me is that they are survivors against rather considerable odds.

  Ann Dowd

  Thinking, People, Loner

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a survivor. But I'm also victim, too. Surviving has the connotation that you've been through it, you lived through it and that's wonderful - but a victim is what I was. "Survivor" is the more healing way to look at it.

  Margaret Cho

  Healing, Looks, Way

  "The righteous rage of Margaret Cho". Interview with Alli Malone, nytlive.nytimes.com. November 10, 2015.

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• As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.

  Shelley Hamlin

  Cancer, Worry, Might

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• I think it's really hard to say now what makes a show kind of sink or swim, and what creates longevity. For instance, I think that Survivor is a very well produced show. It's very simple, it's very elemental, and I think it gets into big issues. I think American Idol has been an amazing show for many, many seasons.

  Dan Cutforth

  Simple, Thinking, Idols

  "Reality Check: Dan Cutforth On What Keeps ‘Top Chef’ Sharp, Cutting Through The Clutter & What’s Next". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. June 16, 2014.

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• Now the guy that got to the top, the CEO, would obviously be stupid to have a number two guy who was a lot smarter than he is. So by definition, since he's a survivor and he got to the top and he isn't that brilliant, his number two guy is going to always be a little worse than he is. So, as time goes on, it's anti-Darwinism, the survival of the un- fittest.

  Carl Icahn

  Stupid, Two, Numbers

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• All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

  Joan Baez

  Survival

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• I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Cockroaches

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• People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them. They think they are cowardly, like we do, so I think it's down to the governments to actually just listen to the people and sign the treaty and get rid of all these things and there would be an end to it.

  Paul McCartney

  Country, Thinking, Government

  "McCartney, wife host land mine benefit". The Associated Press, www.today.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.

  Joaquin Rodrigo

  Believe, Guitar, Age

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• Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.

  Dana Gould

  Mean, Luck, Looks

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• [Working with survivors] it's just a whole different level of concern and that is something that was categorically different working on this film than any other project we had done.

  Amy Ziering

  Different, Done, Levels

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You always try and make a film that is a letter that will be read and we are so glad that it is being read by the right people in the right place and is inspiring change. It is also gratifying that the survivors are finding it healing and transformative. That's been really great.

  Amy Ziering

  Healing, People, Trying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Well, there isn't any one profile of a survivor, but there are profiles. Depending on the disaster you have certain advantages and disadvantages just based on who you are. Women are more likely to survive hurricanes. In hurricanes the deaths come from floods and people driving through high water. That's much more likely to be a man who dies that way.

  Amanda Ripley

  Men, Water, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• So many times after a catastrophe like 9/11, Estonia in Sweden, the Holocaust or whatever, we are so fond of lifting up the hero examples, but actually 99 percent of survivors have done something that they feel very guilty about.

  Ruben Ostlund

  Hero, Holocaust, Example

  Source: collider.com

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• A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fire, Numbers, Envy

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• In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall. A World War II every second-more people killed in the first few hours than all the wars of history put together. The survivors, if any, would live in despair amid the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide.

  Jimmy Carter

  Suicide, War, Fall

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

  Brett Ratner

  Mom, Beach, Brother

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• It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as some guy pulling names out of a coconut, and I said, 'This is the thing that has made American mass media stop in their tracks?

  Tom Hanks

  Media, Names, Track

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• Westlemania is the Superbowl but each PPV is equally important. The big four (WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, SummerSlam and Survivor Series) are always important to me but the themed events have been getting better each year. Each event has its own aura around it so it's very difficult to choose.

  John Cena

  Years, Get Better, Important

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