I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.
There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you f….
I think my family's watched me over the years in my career, in my pursuit of my career, and they've seen the challenges and the struggles that come w….
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of….
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in thei….
You're watching your kids playing football and you're not present. It's like the worst... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a part….
The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even mone….
Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. I’….
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in strugg….
Probably my eating disorder [is the hardest obstacle]. It ruled my life for years, and I didn't know how I could live with it forever, but I didn't k….
Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom..
The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense t….
I think the most interesting thing about any story is how people change. That's usually a struggle, because change is pretty much an uncomfortable th….
I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!.
In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus w….
Let what you give come through you rather than from you. There is no lack this way. Be truly unconditional in what you give so that there can be no f….
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time..
Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. E….
Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Uk….
I'm not that type of musician where I can sit down at the piano and work out a song; I actually really enjoy that process of sitting with somebody an….
I am deeply gladdened that 1993 has been delcared the International Year of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations. It is the first year we have ha….