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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
Nathan Fillion
Me
Money
School
Uncle
Drive
Big
Farm
Back
High
High School
About
Guy
Driven
Had
Truck
Drove
Ford
Because
Owned
Biggest
Poor
Forth
Ever
Rig
I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
Naveen Jain
Food
Family
Together
Mother
Odds
Other
Our
Jobs
India
Find
Struggled
Days
Educate
Were
Up
Ends
Grew
Poor
Us
Worked
Keep
Basic
Necessities
I get maximum satisfaction in seeing the happiness of poor people.
Naveen Patnaik
Happiness
People
Seeing
Get
Maximum
Poor
Poor People
Satisfaction
The Union government can do a lot more for poor states like Orissa.
Naveen Patnaik
Government
States
More
Like
Lot
Poor
Union
I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.
Neil Innes
Saying
Girl
Other
Desperately
Those
Out
Kind
Mars
Some
Something
Guys
Suppose
Terrible
Sci-Fi
Came
Go
Handle
Trying
Where
Loved
Movies
Poor
Things
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.
Nellie Bly
Myself
Crazy
Girl
Duty
Took
Follow
Results
Disagreeable
Part
Felt
Enact
Shirk
Any
Unfortunate
Poor
Should
You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?
Newt Gingrich
Work
You
Money
School
Neighborhood
Librarian
Habit
Students
Clerical
Go
Very
Office
What If
Afternoon
Them
Poor
Required
Paid
Assistant
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
Nicholas Johnson
Work
People
Poverty
Out
Runs
Through
Lift
Counter
Families
Effort
Decades
Poor
Taxing
Themselves
Help
Help People
Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life.
Nicholas Kristof
Life
Good
Parenting
You
Better
Job
Parents
Giving
Incredibly
Tools
Chaos
Those
Kids
Out
Some
Gives
Point
Most
Want
Them
Poor
Much
Your
Hard
Hard Job
Whittle
Gap
Moms
Dads
Away
Starting
Stressed
Starting Point
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
Nicholas Kristof
Care
Recipients
Neither
Rural
About
Countries
Like
Female
Nor
Cameroon
Western
Donor
African
Poor
Much
Who
Prosperity in human society is misunderstood. The difference between a rich and poor society is the number of problems that society solves for its citizens. That means technological innovation is the source of all prosperity, but with every tech innovation, you also get disruption - ultimately, social and civic disruption.
Nick Hanauer
You
Innovation
Prosperity
Problems
Rich
Every
Society
Citizens
Civic
Between
Also
Misunderstood
Source
Ultimately
Get
Human
Difference
Social
Poor
Means
Human Society
Tech
Technological
Disruption
Number
The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.
Nick Hanauer
Better
Will
Made
Economics
Oppose
Rich
Increase
Everyone
Those
Claim
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Bad
Insidious
About
Better Off
Economy
Most
Nonsense
Wage
Off
Get
Any
Poor
Richer
Who
Thing
The thing I've learned most about poverty is how expensive it is to be poor. It's super easy to pay rent every month if you earn enough to pay rent and have a decent job. It's super hard to pay rent if you need a coupon from the state and then need to go find an apartment that will accept that coupon and only that coupon.
Nick Hanauer
You
Will
Job
Poverty
Pay
Every
Enough
Earn
State
Month
Easy
Find
Super
About
Only
Most
Learned
Accept
Rent
How
Go
Decent
Expensive
Apartment
Poor
Then
Hard
Thing
Need
The higher the unemployment rate, the more leverage I have to 'encourage' you to 'do what it takes' to keep your job. And so you work even more hours, pushing unemployment up and wages down. And that, my friends, is one of the little tricks that keeps you poor and me rich.
Nick Hanauer
Work
Me
You
Job
Rich
Down
Tricks
Rate
More
Higher
Pushing
Takes
Hours
Wages
Encourage
Up
Friends
Unemployment
Unemployment Rate
Little
Poor
Your
Even
Keep
Keeps
Leverage
The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.
Nick Hanauer
Love
Employees
Rich
Our
About
Poor
Customers
Us
Businesspeople
Thing
Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
Nikki Giovanni
Sacred
Sacred Cows
Make
Very
Cows
Poor
I wasn't a good-looking child. I got screwed out of the genetic deal. My sister looks like a model. I think that's why I'm a comic. I'm deeply insecure, since I was always feeling ugly. I wasn't a healthy child. I had poor self-esteem. That's why I need people's approval.
Nikki Glaser
People
Ugly
Feeling
Healthy
Sister
Think
Approval
Out
Insecure
Had
Good-Looking
Since
Genetic
Like
Self-Esteem
Looks
Deal
Always
Comic
Got
Model
Child
Screwed
Poor
Why
Deeply
Need
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
Nina Simone
People
Black
Rich
Think
Too
Rise
Most
Die
Going
Them
Poor
I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor.
Noel Wells
Time
Myself
Family
Me
Long
Long Time
To Be Honest
Took
Background
Television
About
Direct
Feel
Like
Make
Because
Up
Very
Being
Wanted
Grew
Movies
Poor
Really
Really Long Time
Ever
Honest
I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.
Noemie Lenoir
Beautiful
Food
Family
Money
Car
Complaining
Parents
Drive
Mountains
Saved
Changed
Everything
Would
Table
Had
Come
Always
Am
Doing
Lot
Campaigns
Get
Childhood
Holidays
Poor
Really
Started
Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.
Noreena Hertz
Business
Experience
People
Valuable
Relation
Insights
Come
Often
Expertise
Poor
Ground
As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make big decisions - prime ministers, presidents and chief executives - and so I'm all too aware of the risks and dangers of poor choices in the public as well as the private sphere.
Noreena Hertz
Risks
Big
Too
Others
Presidents
Spent
Sphere
Dangers
Ministers
Prime
Prime Ministers
Economist
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Most
Well
Make
Executives
Trade
Private
Debt
Chief
Decisions
Public
Poor
Choices
International
Helping
International Trade
Aware
Career
Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.
Noreena Hertz
Sick
Philanthropists
Would
Religious
Rather
Most
Schools
Concert
Halls
Still
Than
Donate
Poor
Help
Groups
Elite
With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.
Norm MacDonald
Me
You
Car
Drive
Big
Rich
Nothing
Live
Guy
Small
Computer
Between
Stuff
Like
Know
Houses
Because
Just
Difference
Which
Apartment
Poor
Really
Cool
These places I've seen have clubbed my mind - they are so poor and depressing. I don't know what we can do to help these people, but we've got to do something.
Norman Borlaug
People
Mind
Seen
Something
Know
Got
Places
Depressing
Poor
Help
The Euro Sceptics are the English National Party in disguise, and they have poor old David Cameron over a barrel.
Norman Davies
Disguise
Old
Party
National
David
David Cameron
Over
Cameron
Poor
Barrel
Euro
English
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