For someone like MC Ren, who is still alive and I can go talk to, that's more of a niche challenge because I do have to match his energy, and I do have to pay homage to who he is as a person, but that just comes with research. And the difference there is I can do the research there right on the spot. I can just go ask him.

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land. I believed in the stories I wanted to tell, the stories I felt were underreported, and I was convinced that that belief would keep me alive.

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Shellfish is better to buy live. In the U.S., because we eat oysters and clams raw, it is very important that they are alive before we prepare them. It's important to look for a closed shell. If a clam is alive, the shell will be closed. Never buy clams if the shell is open.

I'm the most awkward man alive.

Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

FDR's justices were allies while he was alive, but after he died, they developed four totally different theories of what the Constitution is, two of which are considered conservative and two of which are considered liberal.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.

I have trouble keeping plants alive. Even plastic ones.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

I am not lost. I am very much alive.

When a person go to jail, what people don't realize is you're alive, but you're dead to the world. People forget about you. When you go to jail, you're a story.

I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.

What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive.