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What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.
Charlie Sheen

Money, Dad, Care

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Elie Wiesel

Life, Remember, Again

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams

Life, High, Grace

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Noam Chomsky

Long, Mars, Amazed

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
Elie Wiesel

Life, Love, Beautiful

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
Bette Davis

Else, Anybody, Tougher

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Bono

Mistakes, Made, Wrong

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.
Keith Moon

Air, Survivor, Titanic

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
Lady Gaga

Music, Made, Place

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!
Jeff Bridges

God, Happy, Thinking

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.
Jeff Bridges

Good, Great, News

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.
George Michael

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Dean Acheson

History, Freedom, Thought

We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.
Layne Staley

Night, Thought, After

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.
Liam Neeson

Work, Away, Running

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
Paul Newman

Morning, Amazing, Career

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.
Paul Simon

Life, Believing

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
Barbara Boxer

God, Same, Said

The creative adult is the child who has survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Creative, Child, Adult

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.
David Suzuki

Brain, Old, Used

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.
Richard Branson

Battle, Pretty, British

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
Lester B. Pearson

War, Soldier, Comrades

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Cool, Old, Makes

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
James Buchan

Doubt, Fall, Empire

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.
Brett Favre

Life, Football, Remember

It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart.
Trey Parker

Heart, Big, Show

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
Jonathan Sacks

Faith, Fear, Live

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.
Jonathan Sacks

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.
Shirley Manson

Music, Respect, Fight

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.
Christopher Meloni

Work, Hard, Play

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