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I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'
Lenny Abrahamson
Myself
Good
People
Think
Must
Give
Voice
Good Works
Doing
Doing Good
Oh
Poor
Poor People
Works
I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.
Leonard Susskind
Family
Father
Sick
Bronx
Plumber
Take
Had
He
Over
Got
South
South Bronx
Being
Poor
Fun
Jewish
Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Few
Feel
Poor
Save
You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!
Lewis Tappan
You
Joy
Language
Own
Address
Comprehend
Color
Could
Heard
Friendly
May
African
Manifested
Them
Poor
Manner
Imagine
When I first came to Columbia University, I was dirt poor. I did not choose to come here - I just ended up here because I had nowhere else to go, having just escaped from China after Tiananmen. I was in a new country where I didn't understand the language, didn't know anybody, and didn't have a penny to my name. So I was desperate and afraid.
Li Lu
Language
Desperate
Penny
First
Country
Else
Having
Dirt
Had
Columbia
Columbia University
New
Name
Come
Know
Because
Understand
Came
Go
Up
Escaped
Did
Ended
Just
Afraid
Anybody
Where
After
China
Poor
Choose
Nowhere
Here
University
China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.
Li Peng
Speak
World
Strong
Big
Rich
Community
Weak
Members
Small
Maintained
Countries
Equal
Always
China
Poor
Should
Stand
International
International Community
Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.
Lil B
Best
Relationship
Money
Up
Low
Poor
Low-Income
Growing
Growing Up
Income
My perspective of capitalism growing up in Berkeley, Calif. in a low-income project, growing up poor, is that capitalism wanted to destroy me, they wanted me to become a worker.
Lil B
Me
Capitalism
Perspective
Become
Project
Destroy
Berkeley
Up
Wanted
Poor
Low-Income
Worker
Growing
Growing Up
You lose your manners when you are poor.
Lillian Hellman
You
Lose
Manners
Poor
Your
I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want to be or because they don't work hard enough. I feel like there's this demonization of working people in general, but specifically definitely labor union members.
Linda Sanchez
Work
People
Work Hard
Sometimes
Sense
Enough
Definitely
Members
General
Feel
Like
Because
Labor
Want
Poor
Working
Hard
Working People
Working-Class
Union
Specifically
My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.
Lindsay Duncan
Work
Best
Me
People
Writing
Some People
Astonishing
Way
Background
Unlocking
Range
Out
Some
Seems
Writer
Material
Very
Essentially
Being
Poor
Really
Skill
Skills
Acting
Whole
Actor
Bringing
My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.'
Lindy Booth
Building
Sister
Would
Write
Perform
Retirement
Opera
Forced
Go
Poor
Grandma
Phantom
Plays
A pre-nup is an insurance policy or, in brokerage terms, a short hedge - meant to mitigate a high-risk investment. It safeguards the love-struck from their own poor judgment of character.
Lionel Shriver
Character
Judgment
Own
Brokerage
High-Risk
Investment
Terms
Safeguards
Policy
Insurance
Mitigate
Short
Hedge
Poor
Meant
The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12.
Lionel Sosa
Mom
Me
Age
Wish
Party
Rich
Remain
Had
Became
Democrats
Said
Republican
Republicans
Poor
Convinced
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Lionel Trilling
Equality
Sense
Every
Liberal
Progressive
Our
Except
Know
Equal
Equals
Being
Poor
Us
Who
Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the most low-resource settings. Dedication and innovation are transforming health care worldwide.
Liya Kebede
Health
Creative
Innovation
People
Care
Dedication
Babies
Settings
Worldwide
Outcomes
New
Like
Most
Health Care
Transforming
Poor
Poor People
Kangaroo
Strategies
Even
Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.
Loretta Lynn
People
Back
More
Know
Proud
Were
Poor
Then
I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I found comedy.
Louie Anderson
Family
Comedy
Kids
Want
Poor
Found
Things
I grew up in a really poor city. It was difficult, but I always had in my head that I would win, that I would be a professional player, help my family and friends, and realise my dream.
Lucas Moura
Family
Win
Difficult
Dream
Would
Would-Be
City
Had
Head
Always
Up
Friends
Family And Friends
Grew
Realise
Poor
Really
Help
Professional
Player
Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.
Lucy Powell
Today
Time
Food
Change
Problem
Financial
Difficulties
Recession
Our
Recognise
Reliance
High
Some
Crop
Compound
Preventing
Argue
Prices
Push
Part
Fails
Climate
Climate Change
Due
False
Yields
Green
Efforts
Shortages
Fuel
Poor
Agenda
Choice
Should
Serious
Now
Carbon
I spent one year being very poor at home with my piano, and nobody was calling me, but I had space to think about things on my own and find out exactly what I wanted to do.
Ludovico Einaudi
Home
Me
Space
Year
Own
Think
Spent
Out
Find
Exactly
Exactly What
About
My Own
Piano
Had
Nobody
Calling
Very
Being
Wanted
Poor
Things
Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go to San Diego every day to work and then come back. And she would come home when I was an infant long after I was asleep.
Luis Alberto Urrea
Work
Day
Home
Every Day
Speak
Mother
Language
Long
First
Every
Honestly
Back
Would
Had
Come
She
Learned
Because
Go
Infant
Diego
After
San
San Diego
Spanish
Poor
Then
Asleep
English
The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.
Luise Rainer
Best
Good
World
Half
Imitation
Poor
Original
My poor mother. Every time I get a job, she asks, 'Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in this one?' and I say, 'You're probably gonna have to watch me kiss someone in most of them, Mom.'
Luke Bracey
Time
Mom
Me
You
Mother
Job
Kiss
Every
Every Time
Say
Someone
Most
She
Am
Get
Again
Them
Poor
Gonna
Ask
Watch
We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others.
Luke Scott
Good
Me
Gun
Others
Unlikely
Possibly
Security
Carrying
Admit
About
Only
Tactical
Could
Entry
Hostage
Highly
Come
Terrorists
Get
Personal
Where
Want
The Only Thing
Hold
Clubhouse
Poor
Us
Choices
Warrant
Hard
Belief
Suffer
Thing
Here
Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.
Lupe Fiasco
Giving
Gave
Top
Obama
Opposed
Came
Off
Bankers
Poor
Billion
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