Quotes About Struggle

I admire pop stars, and there's parts of that world I'm glad I don't have to go through. It takes a lot of work to do the things they do.

You gotta stay on your P's and Q's. When you popping so hard, got these blessings coming down, you got the devil tryin' to get at you.

My mom eventually got out to Oxnard and started a produce company and was in the strawberry business. My pops was out of the picture by the time I was 7.

We do have depression in the family, and I've experienced it as it pops up from time to time. It is easier to deal with when I have someone looking to me to do things.

My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.

I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

The popularity's got its pluses and minuses, and there are many days that I would rather just be a Christian and not known at all, but that's not what God has called me to do.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.

As a global community, we have to start thinking more seriously about whether there are limits to what our earth can bear and if we're willing to cope with the struggle for limited resources, which only seem to increase as our population does.

The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they've defeated us. From there, the modern Indian rights movement started, and it was a very hard fight, with a lot of stuff going against them.

In a population of over one billion, there are 12-15 names that have the potential to be main leads in Hindi films. I am within the minority of the minority.

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

A performance is like a boat. You really want it to arrive at port. So when something goes wrong and it doesn't get there, that touches me a lot.

I really wanted to be the American James Bond when I was starting out in the business. Then I got 'Falcon Crest,' and the film portion of my career took a back seat.