#survived

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#carry #earth #had #hadn #here

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#berkeley #declined #i #loyalty #oath

In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#early #getting #having #into #lots

So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#hair #hold #i #just #know

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

#back #brought #did #four #got

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

#bruce #characters #clooney #doing #everyone

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

— George Michael

#i #my own #own #really #surprised

Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent. ↗

— Ed Smith

#both #came #certainly #chefs #deep

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#america #challenges #faced #future #grown

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#generations #great #great pleasure #having #pleasure