#surviving

President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.' ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#american #auto #auto industry #back #choice

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#between #brass #coffee #film #houses

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#close #cop #department #field #got

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#anxious #communicate #difficulty #facts #fits

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images. ↗

— Lance Loud

#believe #culture #gauge #gay #homophobic

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#does #down #every #go #good

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. ↗

— Alan Gregg

#experience #face #fine #had #human

Simply surviving in this business is a feat. ↗

— Lou Diamond Phillips

#feat #simply #surviving

I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with cancer--the books allowed me to withstand. They sustained me. I read still, prolifically, with great passion, but never like I read in those days: in those days it was life and death. ~ Junot Diaz, author of 2008 Pulitizer Prize novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ↗

— Leah Price

#reading #surviving #death

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer. ↗

— Marcia Wallace

#cancer #hard #i #more #more and more