Poor Quotes
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Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"
Thomas Sowell -
Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.
William Stringfellow
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There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.
Kathy Whitworth -
They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.
Bob Marley -
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.
Stephen Gaghan -
Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
Anzia Yezierska -
Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
Alison Arngrim -
Poor is the new black.
Erykah Badu
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We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.
Stuart Rose -
You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.
Al Koran -
The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole book called A Taco Testimony, and though the title sounds light, it's a heavy book. It's about being working class and what kind of food is available to you that's cheap.
Sandra Cisneros -
Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.
Mother Teresa -
Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
William Penn -
My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.
Tom Heinsohn
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Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.
Fausto Cercignani -
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Stephen Sondheim -
Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
Sofia Villani Scicolone -
I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.
Steve Martin -
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
William Shakespeare -
The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.
Gerald Celente
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Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.
Arlene J. Chai -
... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.
Carolyn Wells -
Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.
Michael Douglas -
The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
George Gilder