We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.
Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.
I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.
This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.
I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.
You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.
I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor.
Don't you know I”m still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid. I'm still standing after all this time.
Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.
I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.
I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches. " I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.
It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.
No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.
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.
I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to "keep quiet. " I can understand her because she was a Holocaust survivor, and for her survival, she had to keep quiet. But I didn't obey my grandmother when I was a child, and in this case, I don't obey her either.
'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.
I don't think 'Survivor' really changed me.