“I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.” PeopleLooksBigsUsedHousePoorGrewGrew UpModelsMagazinesBig Houses Author:Alana Stewart
“I had a pretty poor self-image for a long time. I broke into acting as a model in New York. I was never anything like a "supermodel," but I made a living at it for a couple years. The thing was, I was convinced that I was tricking everyone into thinking I was attractive.” ThinkingYearsLongMadeSelfPoorActingNew YorkCoupleLong TimeModelsConvincedBrokeAttractiveSupermodelPoor Self Image Author:Geena Davis
“If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.” PeopleIfsHouseNationsPoorMoneyRolesRichCrazyModelsCatFortuneGreedNewspapersMagazinesPretendingRole ModelsNutsCashApartmentRichnessCeilingsTrailersHoardingPathologyStacking Author:Lester B. Pearson
“Poor Hollywood! These things happen all over the world but what a great backdrop to have Hollywood in our movie. No, but I know people who divorce a lot....and have really nice houses. But I didn't model the character on anyone in particular. And if I did, I would never tell the name.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldCharacterHappensHouseNamesPoorNiceParticularModelsHollywoodDivorceThings HappenReally NiceBackdropNice House Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones
“I'm feeling like the music business is reaping what it's sown. It's going through what inevitably it was going to go through. It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn't do things right and had a poor business model.” PeopleLongFeelingsPoorLong TimeModelsAdvantageGlamorousMusic BusinessBusiness Models Author:Adam Levine
“I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we really need to put our efforts - if we want to think long-range and invest in the community so that we don't have to, you know, invest in prisons - into making a change, because I know that the library can make a change in a life, because it made a change in mine.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsLongMadeCommunityPoorEffortMinesModelsPrisonLibraryRangeAssociationMaking Changes Author:Sandra Cisneros
“[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used England of course as the model and said suppose that in England everyone had the free right to vote; the poor, the propertyless - who are the great majority - would use their voting power to take away the rights of property owners to carry out what we would call land reform.” SaidUseWould BeUsedCoursesPoorDemocracyRightsLandDangerModelsVoteEnglandMajorityPropertyDebateReformDiscussionVotingOwnersConventionsRight To VoteMadisonConstitutional Convention Author:Noam Chomsky
“In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show the poor, it must not show the condition of black people. It can only the successful ones, basketball players, musicians, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. But I think the time will come when the Occupy movement will have to somehow formulate something more than just anger.” PeopleThinkingWorldHas BeensShowsAmericaBlackPoorSuccessfulPlayerConditionsMovementBasketballMusicianModelsBlack PeopleRiceBasketball PlayerOccupy Movement Author:Arundhati Roy
“The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.” PeopleRealImaginationPleasurePoorPovertyFantasyModelsDrawingPoor PeopleReal Things Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.” ThinkingPoorRolesFiguresKingsModelsMereSaintMortalsMortalityRole ModelsOddsIncapableLutherIdentifyingMere Mortals Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.” IfsWould BeWantedBlackWhitePoorFiguresTelevisionModelsExpectationsIntelligenceCarefulExpectedScreensGrayExpectingBlack And WhiteReceptionFiddleSnowyKnobsMilitary Intelligence Author:Madeleine Albright