I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.
My parents passed away when I was a teenager, so I had to learn different survival techniques, I think, in comedy. You know, using comedy as a pressure release, as a release valve in life really kept my sanity.
No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.
I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?
Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.
When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
Swimming is good for you, especially if you're drowning. Not only do you get a cardiovascular workout but also you don't die.
I know how to make a little bonfire, fight off some coyotes, or whatever we got to do.
Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.
Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.
I think power will do anything to survive and one of its main techniques is the rule of exceptions. So it makes an exception out of people and we worship them, whether that's Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. These people become beatified beyond recognition.
You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten.
There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are supposed to, instead of saying, 'You're doing very well, so keep doing whatever you are doing.' They should be asking what their patient is doing and pass the information to other patients.
Although I'm a comedian, I'm also an amateur survivalist.
Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.
Assure personal survival in any kind of disaster.
During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.
My survival skills are very good for Hollywood. Beyond that, I'm not really sure.
It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.
It doesn't matter how good the enemy's weapons are. If he can't see you, he can't hit you. Cover, cover, cover. Make sure you're never exposed.
You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout.
