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My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices. She did everything that you could imagine. We were really poor. But she would say, 'Where you are is not who you are.'
Ursula Burns
Work
You
Work Hard
Mother
Amazing
Community
Guess
Our
Everything
Our Community
Say
Would
Could
Cleaned
Had
She
Were
Get
Did
Offices
Where
Wanted
Poor
Really
Hard
Who
Imagine
I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
Jeff Bridges
Kid
Hungry
Campaign
American
American Children
Children
Poor
I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
Dolly Parton
Life
Food
Remember
Animals
Early Years
Our
I Remember
Had
How
Years
Very
Times
Poor
Then
Hard
Electricity
Hard Times
Even
Grow
Early
Raise
Early Life
Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
Bill Gates
People
Will
Year
Down
Every
Changes
Everyone
Out
About
Somehow
Put
Countries
Over
Make
Lot
Five
Than
American
Poor
Poor Countries
Average
Planet
Less
Billion
Each
Now
Carbon
Zero
Carbon Dioxide
Ton
Bring
Tons
One big mistake that we made in Delhi is that we made it a low-rise city which means that rich people have nice green colonies while the poor live in dusty areas.
Abhijit Banerjee
Mistake
People
Made
Big
Rich
Nice
Live
City
Delhi
Colonies
Area
Big Mistake
Green
Dusty
Which
While
Poor
Rich People
Means
Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.
Marco Rubio
People
Parents
Born
Only
Both
Could
Like
Cuba
Because
Island
Came
Were
Families
America
Where
Place
Them
Poor
Chance
Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.
Howlin' Wolf
Tired
Class
People
Somebody
White
Back
Negroes
Has-Been
Bouncing
Checks
Been
Getting
Poor
Us
The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
P. J. O'Rourke
Innovation
Important
Living
Resource
Out
Pluck
Get
Bravery
Which
Places
Poor
The worry in Labour circles is that, when pressed, Gordon Brown instinctively moved to cut the benefits of the poor rather than upset businesses and the wealthy.
John McDonnell
Benefits
Worry
Circles
Pressed
Wealthy
Brown
Rather
Instinctively
Gordon
Than
Labour
Moved
Upset
Poor
Cut
Businesses
When you're poor, an egg sandwich is dinner and you cut your potatoes with a butter knife.
John Witherspoon
You
Dinner
Potatoes
Knife
Egg
Poor
Cut
Sandwich
Your
Butter
My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.
Keith O'Brien
Government
Seriously
Rich
Think
Our
Bit
Hood
About
David
David Cameron
Head
Taking
Message
Robin
Robin Hood
Cameron
Tax
Again
Little
Little Bit
Poor
Help
You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.
Robert Kiyosaki
You
Class
Gone
Rich
Only
Between
Middle
Middle Class
Poor
Choose
A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Religion
Earth
Indicator
True
Concern
Sure
True Religion
Poor
Even Milton Friedman - doyen of radical free market thought - was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds that it is unfair for children to not get a chance in life because they were born to poor parents.
Abhijit Banerjee
Life
Education
Government
Thought
Free
Parents
Unfair
Radical
Intervention
Consider
Market
Willing
Some
Born
Free Market
Primary
Because
Were
Get
Children
Poor
Grounds
Even
Chance
Milton
Corruption is a huge problem and the poor and the powerless are often its most egregious victims. But it is not an accident that the most effective bureaucracies in the world rely much more on internal controls rather than on independent ombudsmen.
Abhijit Banerjee
Corruption
Problem
World
Accident
Independent
Rather
More
Rely
Most
Powerless
Effective
Huge
Than
Often
Controls
Victims
Poor
Much
Internal
When you look at how much we spend on social programs in our country, it separates us from a lot of countries. In our country, if you're hungry, we'll feed you. If you're homeless, we'll house you. If you're too poor to be sick, we'll pay for your doctor. But all of that comes at a cost.
John Kennedy
You
Doctor
Country
Pay
Sick
Too
Programs
Our
Spend
Hungry
Cost
Feed
Countries
Look
House
How
How Much
Lot
Social
Poor
Us
Much
Separates
Your
Homeless
It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.
Michael Moore
Country
Incredible
System
Out
Cuba
Healthcare
Very
Poor
Turns
If you want to leave move money in the hands of poor people, you cannot do it through personal income tax cuts. You have to just give them money.
Abhijit Banerjee
You
People
Money
Give
Through
Leave
Hands
Personal
Move
Just
Tax
Want
Tax Cuts
Cannot
Them
Poor
Poor People
Cuts
Income
Income Tax
Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their poverty was their own fault and, to demonstrate that, if you're not up to mark then you're sanctioned and the money stops.
Ken Loach
You
Money
Fault
Poverty
Own
Humiliated
Mark
Telling
Make
Smith
Demonstrate
His
Up
Stops
Wanted
Regime
Sanctioned
Them
Poor
Then
Suffer
I had poor eyesight when I was young and despite that, I was making good grades.
apl.de.ap
Good
Young
Despite
Eyesight
Had
Making
Grades
Poor
Good Grades
I usually stay out of politics, but people have asked me whether the American Healthcare Act (AHCA), if passed by the Senate, will affect me personally. I'm about music, not politics, but the fact is this one has me freaked out for poor and disabled people.
Jason Becker
Politics
Music
Me
People
Will
Out
Freaked
Stay
About
Fact
Disabled
Healthcare
Passed
Affect
Senate
American
Whether
Poor
Personally
Asked
Act
What makes it all worth-while is what I've been able to do for my parents. They were poor and worked all their lives. Like all boys in London, I dreamed of winning the football pool and doing for them. Well, this is better than any football pool. Now they don't have to work. I've given them a nice home and a car. It's a good feeling.
Dave Clark
Work
Good
Home
Better
Car
Parents
Feeling
Pool
Nice
Dreamed
Able
London
Given
Winning
Football
Like
Well
Makes
Boy
Doing
Were
Been
Than
Any
Them
Poor
Worked
Now
Good Feeling
Lives
The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical nor ecological space for everyone to pursue private luxury.
George Monbiot
Truth
Truth Is
Space
Luxury
Rich
Live
Others
Everyone
Neither
Physical
Able
Only
Ecological
Pursue
Because
Private
Nor
Grim
Poor
After Operation Protective Edge, I visited every one of the bereaved families. Religious and secular, rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jews and non-Jews.
Benny Gantz
Secular
Edge
Rich
Every
Jews
Visited
Religious
Protective
Operation
Families
After
Poor
I came here as an immigrant. We were poor. We went to flea markets to sell gifts to make ends meet. Just the mere fact that I can be running for Congress is something that can only happen in a place like America. It's such a wonderful country.
Ted Lieu
Wonderful
Country
Congress
Meet
Markets
I Can
Immigrant
Gifts
Running
I Came
Something
Only
Fact
Mere
Like
Make
Came
Were
Sell
America
Just
Ends
Happen
Place
Poor
Flea
Flea Markets
Here
My family regarded the end of my career as a sign they could really enjoy life a bit rather than cancelling plans on the back of a poor result - it happened many times!
Jamie Carragher
Life
Family
Result
Enjoy Life
Enjoy
Back
Bit
Sign
Rather
Could
End
Times
Than
Happened
Regarded
Poor
Really
Plans
Many
Career
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