Quotes About Struggle

I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

Poor people aren't making dumb decisions because they are dumb, but because they're living in a context in which anyone would make dumb decisions.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.

We were much poorer than many families.

I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

I come from one of the poorest countries in the world, and Cameroon is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.

The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I've ever played in my life. I completed one of 15 passes and had two interceptions.

The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win; they lose.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

When you're a pop star it doesn't mean you just get free stuff.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

It was kind of like, my worst crime was that I was a pop star.