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“We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.”

Hard Used Father Poor Class Figures Masters Mom Honor University My Mom Accepted New Orleans Contractor

Author:Frank Ocean

“It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.”

Hard Poor New York

Author:Josh Radnor

“The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.”

Thinking Knows Way Heart Persons Hard Reason Interest Poor Levels Advice Reason Why Envious Best Interests At Heart

Book:Get Anyone to Do Anything: Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation

Source: Get Anyone to Do Anything: Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation

“This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.”

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Author:Dorothy Day

“Mitt Romney is doing what he can. He's trying very hard. He wants to unite America, the rich with the wealthy, the poor with the indigent, and the white with the Caucasian.”

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Author:David Letterman

“I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.”

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Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Hard Facts Government Would Be Poor Fit Republican Program Sorry Selfish Welfare Fewer Proliferation Insensitive Welfare Programs

Author:Andy Rooney

“Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)”

Ifs Giving Hard Easy Can Do Poor Forgiving Charity Plenty Best Things Goods

Author:Meher Baba

“We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time, and that only through the united efforts of our younger generation and all our people, working with their own hands, can China be made strong and prosperous within a period of several decades. The establishment of our socialist system has opened the road leading to the ideal society of the future, but to translate this ideal into reality needs hard work.”

“I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.”

People Trying Hard Dream Kids Able Poor Streets Achieve Hard Work Pursue Your Dreams Pursue Your Dreams

Author:Dave Bautista

“I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.”

People Ifs Hard Might Poor Accepting

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.”

Men Hard Enough Poor Practice Rich Atheism Positive Atheism Piety Rich Man Stink Insufferable

Book:J. B.

Source: J. B.

“The way that you empower the poor to be able to live in those neighborhoods is not to just move them and give them something, give them the better neighborhood. You have policies that allow them to get out of the neighborhood permanently and afford that neighborhood through hard work.”

Way Giving Hard Able Moving Poor Policy Hard Work Empowering Neighborhood

Author:Katie Pavlich

“Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.”

Ifs Humans Hard Poor Human Nature Pity Contempt Alas Degenerates

Author:John Godfrey Saxe

“The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.”

Men Hard Enjoy Poor Riches Miserable Plenty Midst Cheat Estates Covetousness

Book:The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions : Together with the Rule of Faith : Being All that Were Published by His Grace Himself and Now Collected Into One Volume : to which is Added, an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Matters

Source: The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions : Together with the Rule of Faith : Being All that Were Published by His Grace Himself and Now Collected Into One Volume : to which is Added, an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Matters

“We're being overrun by people who live in poor and corrupt countries who come to the USA to get work. But we got to regain our sovereignty, we're going to control our border, and there will be border security tied to the pathway to citizenship. There will be an earned pathway to citizenship. It will be available to everybody who works hard, pays a fine, passes a background check.”

People Country Hard Poor Pay Security Hard Work Fine Available Backgrounds Checks Borders Usa Tied Citizenship Sovereignty Pathways Background Checks Border Security

Author:Lindsey Graham

“New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.”

Doe Hard Poor Cities New York Identity Cost Elsewhere Affluence Over The Top

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.”

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Author:Farrah Gray

“What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.”

People Ifs Believe Hard Young Opportunity Belief I Believe Nations Simple Poor Party Race Responsibility Rich Hard Work Profound Notion Regions Taking Responsibility Get Ahead Rich Or Poor

Author:Barack Obama

“I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.”

Hard Poor Soldier Backgrounds Slums Poor Family

Author:Michael Caine

“It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.”

Hard Black Poor

Author:Larry Holmes

“During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.”

Hard Problem Poor Groups Effects African American Hard Times Great Depression Disadvantaged

Author:William Julius Wilson

“It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.”

Ifs Needs Matter Hard Goal Poor Clear Achieve Our Family Clear Goals

Author:Brian Tracy

“The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.”

May Hard Easy Poor Rich Shuffle

Author:Mason Cooley

“Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the articles thus made aresold for prices that give monstrous prices to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labor of our sex.”

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Book:The Evils Suffered by American Women and American Children: The Causes and the Remedy

Source: The Evils Suffered by American Women and American Children: The Causes and the Remedy

“I never dreamt of being in the movies. I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies.”

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Author:Debbie Reynolds

“You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.”

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Book:No Mentor But Myself: A Collection of Articles, Essays, Reviews, and Letters on Writing and Writers

Source: No Mentor But Myself: A Collection of Articles, Essays, Reviews, and Letters on Writing and Writers

“Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.”

Mean Matter Hard Pain Poor Pay Figures Failure Golden Often Is Forethought Steadiness

Author:Charles Buxton

“Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets and sold gifts to make ends meet. Eventually, through hard work, they opened six gift stores in shopping malls. My parents achieved the American dream; they went from being poor to a home and gave my brother and me an amazing education. I wanted to serve the country that gave so much to my family.”

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Author:Ted Lieu

“We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert”

Hard Poor Hard Things Bachelors

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.”

Knows Writing Littles Art Hard Enough Form Poor Class Novel Moved Los Angeles Screenplays Little Money Specs

Author:Stephen Gaghan

“I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.”

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Author:Evander Holyfield